Week 5: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Outline for Chapter 14:

The Arts  (388-415)

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Professor John Wolford
Department of Anthropology
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Email: wolfordj@msx.umsl.edu


 
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The important questions Haviland cites for you to consider while reading this chapter:
 

What is art?

Why do anthropologists study art?

What are the functions of the arts?

Notes for William A. Haviland, 

Cultural Anthropology, 10th edition: 

Chapter 14:  The Arts  (398-415)


The Anthropological Study of Art (392-394)  
ANTHROPOLOGY APPLIED:  (on p. 393)
PROTECTING CULTURAL HERITAGES


Verbal Arts (394-400)
 

  • Legend (396-398)
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  • Tale (398-399)
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  • Other Verbal Arts (399-400)
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    IMPORTANT SCHOLAR: 
    FREDERICA DE LAGUNA    (1906 -        )

    The Art of Music (400-406)
  • Functions of Music (403-406)

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    Pictoral Art (406-413)
     
  • Southern African Rock Art (407-413)
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    ORIGINAL STUDY:  (on pp. 412-413)
    BUSHMAN ROCK ART AND POLITICAL POWER


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