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55 Cards in this Set
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define art
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the creative use of the imagination to interpret, enjoy, and understand life
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define aestetics
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shared beliefs about value, beauty, and meaning ascribed to art
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aesthetic response
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reactions evoked through exposure to art
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two dimensions of aesthetic response
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cognitive and symbolic
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cognitive
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what are we looking at?
what does it make you think of? |
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symbolic
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how does it make you feel?
how does it appeal to your senses? |
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functions of art
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express cultural values and concerns
preserve culture and customs contribute to the solidarity of society heighten the emotions |
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ethereal arts
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those that manifest through performance
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durable arts
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those that are physical, tangible, and visible
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hot arts
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glassblowing, pottery, water color, improvisational jazz, theater, etc
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cold arts
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architecture, woodcarving, sculpture, classical piano, oil painting
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verbal arts
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folklore, myth, legends, urban legends, epics
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folklore
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traditional stories and beliefs, transmitted through oral expression: characteristics - repetition, variation, transmitted literally and orally
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myth
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sacred story telling how the world was created
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legend
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stories set in post creation world that are believed to be true
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urban legends
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sensationalized fables of extraordinary events that are believed to be true
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epics
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long narratives recounting the events in the life of a remarkable person, either real or imaginary
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features of folklore
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vital and persistent in daily life
broad, common, contemporary, & ancient connotations include falsehoods, nonsense folklore is connected with human creativity, community, and innovation |
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defining folklore
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artistic communication within groups
study of human creativity in context |
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art
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decorative in form, proportion, detail
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craft
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designed to serve a specific function
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why are urban legends told
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show american reactions to situations of corporate negligence, human irresponsibility, violations of health and cleanliness
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three elements of urban legends
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high entertainment value
foundation in actual belief generally, cautionary tale "moral message" |
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riddles
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fundamentally intellectual process
speech puzzles based on metaphoric categories |
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meta narrative
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story about a story
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why study folklore and urban legends
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shows concerns of culture
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foodways
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traditions surrounding the procurement, preparation, and consumption of food in a cultural setting
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space
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the portion of an unlimited expanse in a given instance of time
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place
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the specific portion of space occupied by anything
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environment
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all external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time
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landscape
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an area, as perceived by people, whose character is result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors
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places are...
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familiar, known, inhabited
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to know a place is to know:
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its name
its stories |
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somatic space
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space of sensory experience and bodily movements
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perceptual space
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egocentric space perceived by individuals in their daily practices
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existential space
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experienced through sacred, symbolic, or mythic space, creating another space around buildings, objects, features of local topography
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cognitive space
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all of the previous; somatic, perceptual, existential
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abstract space
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container, universal, objective, external, neutral, coherence, atemporal
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human space
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medium, specific, subjective, internal, empowered, contradiction, temporal
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western space
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infinitely open, economic, useful to act, time divorced from space
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non-western space
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differential density, cosmological, useful to think, space-time
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ethnoecology
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study of traditional systems of ecological classification
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applied anthropology
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the application of anthropological perspectives to identify, assess, and solve social problems
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urban anthropology
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ethnographic study of global urbanization and its effects on cultural life
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development anthropology
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the study of cultural consequences of economic development
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green revolution
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agricultural changes designed to improve world nutrition by increasing the world food supply
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cultural development strategies must include:
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representation of native social forms
eliciting people's needs for change communicating these needs to funding agencies ensuring proper implementation of new programs successful development programs are those that are culturally compatible |
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cultural imperialism
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the replacement of one culture by another due to differential economic or political influences
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hegemony
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stratified social order in which subordinates comply passively with domination
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ethnocide
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tribe's cultural collapse
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genocide
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tribe's physical extinction
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public transcript
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open, outwardly visible interactions
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hidden transcript
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private, covert expression of discontent
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popular culture
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the constantly changing mass-mediated, production and consumption of goods and services in western societies
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why study pop culture?
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to understand the dynamics of social change
to understand the beliefs and values of subcultural groups to understand how the world views american social norms and models to understand the directions that youth groups are adopting as they mature and develop |
