ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Crossing Lines, Musical Form, Major Religious Groups
21 Mar 2017
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What is expressive culture: behavior and beliefs related to art, leisure, and play. Performance arts: music, dance, theatre, rhetoric, and storytelling, ethnomusicology: cross-cultural study of music, musical form, music and social status, music interacts with other spheres in the culture (religion, healing, gender, etc, traditional change and evolution. Sports and play: sports and games can often be considered as models of culture (depicting basic ideals) and models for culture (socializing viewers and participants toward certain values and ideals) What do popular american sports say about americans: football, uniforms/costumes, crossing lines, hierarchy of control, violence (cid:862)deep pla(cid:455)(cid:863)- a game with stakes so high that no rational person would play. What is religion: beliefs and behaviors related to supernatural beings and forces. Just like any other aspect of culture, religious beliefs are learned. The anthropology of religion: early anthropologists took an ethnocentric approach to the anthropological study of religion, a(cid:374)i(cid:373)is(cid:373)/ (cid:862)(cid:374)atural(cid:863) for(cid:272)es, polytheism, monotheism.
