Exam 14: The Arts

The function of legends has been taken over by _______________.

Oral tradition helps the Australian Aborigines claim extensive indigenous _____________ ownership.

When an anthropologist uses the term _______________,s/he is referring to a category of verbal narratives that are secular,non-historical,and seen primarily as a source of entertainment.

Most anthropologists prefer the term "folklore" to "verbal arts" or "oral traditions."

The _______________ system divides the octave into five nearly equidistant tones.

Whether beneficial or unbeneficial,all art is an expression of _______________.

Rarely has a culture been reported to lack any kind of music.Bone flutes and whistles as much as _______________ years old have been found by archaeologists.

By examining old photographs and other items of material culture,_______________ was able reproduce a tribal chief's collar of the Penobscot people.

Narratives seem to be one of the most difficult of the verbal arts to record or collect.

Peyote buttons contain a psychotropic substance called a(n)_______________.

A cultural art form which is emblematic of the Micmac stubborn desire for self-determination is their _____________________.This also played a key role in their success of the band's Native rights case.

Tattoos communicate through _______________.

In Western music the distance between the basic tone and the first overtone is called a(n)_______________.

Poetry is not found among the Bedouin because they consider it un-Islamic.

To study and analyze art,anthropologists use a combination of which three approaches?

In the myth of Tabaldak and Odziozo,Tabaldak first created the Abenakis from stone,and then from living wood.What does this tell us about the functions of myths?

An example of a modern urban legend in the United States is one _______________ often told when he was president about an African American woman on welfare.Supposedly,her ability to collect around 103 welfare checks under different names allowed her to live lavishly.Although proven to be false,the story was told as if it were true,as all legends are.

The verbal arts would include which of the following?

Music gives basic human ideas a _________________ form,which makes it memorable and attractive which is usable by the culture to promote ideas and understandings.

A good way to deepen our insight into the relationship between art and the rest of culture is to examine critically some of the generalizations that have already been made about specific art forms.