Exam 26: The Arts

Singing is most likely to involve soloists in which type of society?

Alan Dundes thinks that Native American folktales have characteristic structures. One is the movement

Alan Lomax and his co-researchers found that __________ seems to vary with cultural complexity.

Anthropologist Sally Price had an interest in how Western museums look at art of the less complex cultures. She found

Which of the following artistic styles is most likely to occur in an egalitarian society?

What conclusions about the universality of emotions have been derived from the study of masks?

An urban legend is an example of

What is music? How does it vary from simple to complex societies?

It is believed that people decorate themselves for

How have indigenous art styles changed due to cultural contact? Use an example from North America or Australia.

As indigenous populations were decimated, many artistic traditions were lost. Contact with Western societies may have changed art also by

In how many societies do people decorate or adorn their bodies?

Anthropologists have found people in all countries decorate or adorn their bodies. They are of two general types,

In regards to music, anthropologists realize that music from another culture may sound very different to us because

Psychological anthropologists suggest that art

According to Stith Thompson, the widespread Native American Star Husband tale

Which of the following is most likely to occur in the art of a stratified society?

There have been few studies of cross-cultural variation in the frequency of certain features in folktales. One thing they found, however, was

__________ (is/are) transmitted orally, but it/they may be written. It/they include(s) myths, legends, etc.