ANTH 1003 Chapter : April 15 2015 Chapter 17
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Art is fully embedded in social networks, gender, ethnicity, power, and so on. Anthropologists seek to describe how art fits into these contexts. More recent studies of how art and performance reflective of and constitutive of social order. Art, identity, tourism and markets (i. e. , unesco) Native australian painters invent traditional art forms. The terms invent and traditional may seem at odds with one another, but once again we are looking at the concept of authenticity. Australian aboriginal communities originally based their subsistence on foraging, and lived highly nomadic lives. The australian government forced many aborigines to resettle in permanent communities. This forced assimilation often left the aborigines divorced from their known ways of life. As a result many became dependent on government subsistence. In the 1970s a euro-australian art teacher was visiting the aboriginal settlement community of. While visiting the community he became concerned about the high levels of unemployment.
