Deck 13: Expressive Culture

Question 1

In First Nations groups of the Pacific Northwest Coast,male carvers and painters had to be

A)more involved with men's art than women's art.
B)initiated into a secret society.
C)lower in status than other men.
D)ritually purified.
E)more absorbed with leisurely activities.

Answer 1

initiated into a secret society.

Question 2

Trobrian Island cricket is an example of

A)colonialism and ethnocide
B)colonialism and syncretism
C)colonialism and assimilation
D)resistance and cultural revival
E)tourism and cultural spectacle

Answer 2

colonialism and syncretism

Question 3

The ________ in Puvirnituq,Quebec,is an example of a community museum created by an Inuit elder.

A)Canadian Museum of Civilization
B)Saputik (The Weir)Museum
C)British Columbia Museum
D)ROM
E)U'mista Cultural Centre

Answer 3

Saputik (The Weir)Museum

Question 4

A new theory to explain Venus figurines hypothesize

A)that they were self-portraits made by women
B)that they were fertility goddesses carved by men
C)that they were used to cure infertility
D)that they were "dolls" given to children
E)that they were gifts given upon marriage

Question 5

Most anthropologists would support

A)only non-Western objects should be exhibited with information on their social context
B)the premise that non-Western objects should never be exhibited as this is ethnocentric
C)objects should not be repatriated as larger museums can ensure that modern museums are better equipped to ensure the survival of artifacts
D)the idea that no expressive culture is ever context bound
E)all expressive culture is context bound and that all objects should be exhibited with background information and its social context

Question 6

The great wooden houses with their painted facades and carved totem poles made by First Nations communities on the Northwest Coast of North America reflected the

A)stability of their resource base and the high value placed on displaying rank.
B)international tourism which has given it a recent boost.
C)spirituality and self-control of their communities.
D)free lifestyle for males than most are typically allowed.
E)efforts of groups larger than the family unit.

Question 7

An anthropologist considers that art

A)is created by a formally schooled artist
B)is associated with an individual artists who "signs" his work
C)is sold on the market
D)follows aesthetic principles of the culture in which it was produced
E)is made solely for art's sake

Question 8

NAGPRA refers to

A)a national Act by the French government to improve "outreach" of its art museums.
B)a program of the United Nations to return all art to its homeland.
C)an act requiring that Native American skeletons be returned to their descendants.
D)an international law requiring that craftspersons who made certain goods be identified rather than "invisibilized."
E)the protection of local artists and their work from co-optation by anthropologists.

Question 9

Anthropological research on tourism has demonstrated that

A)tourists are willing to sacrifice comfort entirely for authenticity
B)local residents never exercise agency or play an active role in managing tourism projects
C)advertisement can simultaneously minimize the foreignness of a travel destination while promoting primitivist imagery
D)tourist promotional literature has emphasized primitivist imagery only in recent decades
E)tourism promotes a complicated,not always photogenic,understanding of foreign cultures

Question 10

The term Museum originates from a Greek word

A)referring to a place for the muses to congregate
B)referring to the home of the philosophers
C)referring to a hall exhibiting artifacts captured in war
D)referring to cabinets dedicated to the muses
E)referring to religious temples consecrated to the muses

Question 11

Compared to art historians,anthropologists who study art are more likely to

A)learn how to create a particular form of art themselves.
B)study the artist.
C)examine the process of making and using art.
D)study motif shifts as a clue to broader cultural change.
E)all of the above.

Question 12

A study of how people furnish and decorate their homes in Japan reveals that

A)traditional styles have completed disappeared with an emphasis on consumption prevailing
B)traditional features of Japanese design such as the tatami and shoji continue to predominate in Japanese homes
C)tensions exist as women must work to satisfy new consumer needs,while being discouraged from working to pursue domestic pursuits
D)less wealthy people face fewer conflicts as they are not driven to pursue new styles
E)home decorating magazines promote traditional styles as a means of ensuring a happier family

Question 13

First-generation South Asian immigrants to Canada introduced ________ and other classical forms of dance-drama to immigrant and non-immigrant audiences.

A)Ramayana
B)mughanniya
C)Kathakali
D)ballad
E)Shikhat

Question 14

Universities also exhibit their own unique use of space,from the ________ covered walls of Canada's oldest universities to the modern suburban high-rise campuses.

A)ivy
B)mural
C)prehistoric art
D)First Nation art
E)rose-bush

Question 15

"Into the Heart of Africa," was the ________ most controversial exhibit.

A)Kwagiulth Museum's
B)British Columbia Museum of Anthropology's
C)Saputik Museum's
D)Canadian Museum of Civilization's
E)Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM)

Question 16

A Canadian household that features works of art and artifacts collected while traveling or imported goods bought locally to create a varied place would be called

A)kitsch
B)pluralism
C)multicultural design
D)heterotopia
E)neodesign

Question 17

Anthropologist/weaver Kathy M'Closkey at the University of Windsor,Ontario

A)found no class differences in patterns of adoption of Western styles.
B)studied the difficulties faced by Navajo weavers in receiving adequate compensation for their rugs.
C)discovered that "traditional" values are being maintained within the home with little Western influence apparent.
D)found very few differences between middle class North American preferences and styles and those in Japan.
E)demonstrated that nearly 100 percent of the population now has nuclear households and are designing their homes with no regard for parents-in-laws.

Question 18

In the Japanese baseball league,wa signifies

A)self-sacrifice for the good of the sport
B)discipline and self-sacrifice to achieve individual glory
C)achieving honour in competition
D)discipline and self-sacrifice for the good of the whole
E)discipline and self-sacrifice to achieve spiritual purity

Question 19

First-generation South Asian immigrants to Canada introduced ________ and other classical forms to immigrant and non-immigrant audiences,creating an appreciation for Indian dance-drama.

A)Heterotopia
B)Tatami
C)Kathakali
D)Maskit
E)Tonga

Question 20

The dupla in Brazil

A)are traditional indigenous signers
B)are country signers,a duo of brothers
C)are rock artists featuring two brothers or cousins
D)are Brazilians performers at the Carnaval
E)transgendered dancers

Question 21

Hockey in Canada,is linked to images of

A)national character and identity.
B)national conflict.
C)defeat and mistrust.
D)American football.
E)Grey Cup.

Question 22

The study of music within particular cultural contexts is referred to as

A)ethnology.
B)ethnomusicology.
C)museum anthropology.
D)ethnoesthetics.
E)epidemiology.

Question 23

According to the textbook,a major area of dispute about art in Russia concerns

A)whether icons that had been placed in museums during the Soviet era should be returned to churches.
B)the price of opera tickets.
C)whether or not indigenous people's goods and skeletal materials should be repatriated.
D)the definition of fine art versus folk art.
E)whether or not to construct fine arts museums in Siberia.

Question 24

The term aesthetics refers to universal notions of quality.

Question 25

Participation in cricket festivals in Bermuda is marked by

A)local adaptation and change.
B)colonialism.
C)syncretism.
D)indulgence and festive sociability.
E)racial tensions.

Question 26

The study of shikhat in Morocco is an example of a study that focuses on

A)folk drama.
B)the artist's position in society.
C)transformation of utilitarian art to "art for art's sake."
D)transition of art in a post-socialist state.
E)emic interpretations of "what is art?"

Question 27

Tensions between museums and First Nations peoples in Canada came to a head over ________ exhibit developed by the Glenbow Museum to celebrate the 1998 Calgary Winter Olympics.

A)The Weir
B)Into the Heart of Africa
C)The Spirit Sings
D)The Rebel Goddess
E)The Venus

Question 28

When classical Hindu dance-dramas are taught and performed in Canadian cities,there are opportunities to observe

A)processes of change and adaptation.
B)Hip-Hop artists.
C)costumes and makeup.
D)gender and music.
E)heterotrophic.

Question 29

A form of enactment that seeks to entertain is

A)architecture.
B)interior decoration.
C)heterotopia.
D)syncretism.
E)theater.

Question 30

Canadian anthropologist Jeanne Cannizo designed one of ROM's most controversial exhibit as an encouragement to public to actively engage and interpret the displays.This is an example of

A)how museums attract a larger proportion of people.
B)how history museums in each country attract the widest social spectrum of visitors.
C)participant museum anthropology.
D)colonial ideology.
E)reflexive museology.

Question 31

The Canadian Museum of Civilization and many other museums have shifted

A)from being a local museum to a national museum.
B)and are completely segregated from each other.
C)to become an elitist and representing the interests of only a portion of the population.
D)the authority of the museum to represent the "truth" about other peoples,cultures,and objects.
E)from an exclusively object-oriented approach to one that stresses cultural performances and interactive media experiences.

Question 32

After hearing the Windsor University anthropologist M'Closkey's presentation,a conference participant donated the century old ________ to the ________ and Cultural Centre in Window Rock,Arizona.

A)headresses;Kwagiulth Museum
B)carved totem poles;British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology
C)Navajo blanket;Navajo Nation Museum
D)wampum records;ROM
E)mask;U'mista Cultural Centre

Question 33

Canadian football carries less mythic value as a symbol of national identity,as it is more of a historical compromise between

A)male and female wrestling.
B)British rugby and American football
C)baseball.
D)basketball.
E)going to the theater.

Question 34

The shikhat performers of Morocco are

A)highly respected classical dancers.
B)homosexual males who perform at all-male functions.
C)mystical drummers whose music has now become popular worldwide.
D)women singers and dancers who perform at rites of passage.
E)a dying "folk" tradition since Moroccans are interested in listening only to Western music.

Question 35

Zuni potters always copy traditional styles they learned from their mentors.

Question 36

________ served as a record of laws,treaties,and promises,and it helps the Iroquois remember their oral history.

A)Wooden houses with painted facades
B)Carved totem poles
C)Wampum
D)Navajo blankets
E)Great Law

Question 37

Individual flowers also acquire local meanings,as in Canada where poppies are associated with

A)Remembrance Day.
B)Multicultural.Day.
C)a botanical museum.
D)Veteran's Day.
E)Canadian Cancer Society.

Question 38

The issue of ________,or returning objects to their original homes,is a matter of international and national concern.

A)repatriation
B)reflexive museology
C)Wampum records
D)syncretism
E)cultural heritage

Question 39

________ are associated with the Canadian Cancer Society.

A)Poppies
B)Forget-me-nots
C)Roses
D)Tulips
E)Daffodils

Question 40

Flowers are not a prominent motif in African art as its environment possessed fewer flowers than Eurasia.

Question 41

Costa Rica's army plays an active role in protecting foreign tourists.

Question 42

The Saputik Museum in Puvirnituq,Quebec,is an example of a community museum created by an Inuit elder.

Question 43

Games and sports are according to Clifford Geertz models of a culture.

Question 44

The issue of repatriation,refers to relocation of people to their original homes.

Question 45

Features of a wrestler's life in India are similar to those of an Indian holy man.

Question 46

In First Nations groups of the Pacific Northwest Coast,female carvers and painters had to be initiated into a secret society,and they had higher status than other women.

Question 47

Often,tourist support for indigenous arts promote their maintenance or even spread.

Question 48

The formation of Amboseli National Park in Kenya helped to finance new wells that provided much needed strategic water resources to the Maasai and their herds.

Question 49

Museums are found only in Europe and North America.

Question 50

Most visitors to the ROM exhibiting "Into the Heart of Africa," were able to recognize the importance of reflexive and ironic nature of these exhibits.

Question 51

The U'mista Cultural Centre provides brief labels of the regalia that was confiscated and that has been repatriated with a small drawing of the object in its original setting.

Question 52

Museums and museology have made very little contribution in the development of Canadian anthropology.

Question 53

Tensions between museums and First Nations Peoples in Canada came to a head over "The Spirit Sings" exhibit developed by the Glenbow Museum to celebrate the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

Question 54

The Lubicon Cree of Northern Alberta called for an international boycott of the exhibit that was displayed at the 1998 Calgary Winter Olympics.

Question 55

The teaching and performance of Hindu dance-dramas in Canadian cities offer opportunities to observe how a mainstream culture dominates immigrant cultures to become a "melting pot."

Question 56

The University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology displays large white cards with texts and quotations about the confiscation of the regalia that has been repatriated.

Question 57

Briefly explain why anthropologists study art and what they are looking to understand in the study of art?

Question 58

Explain briefly how the anthropological understanding of art is likely to differ from the Western classical tradition.

Question 59

Individual flowers also acquire local meanings,as in Canada were poppies are associated with Remembrance Day.

Question 60

Leisure activities would not be considered play because they lack rules,tension and chance.

Question 61

Explain the necessity of repatriation of wampum to First Nations people.

Question 62

What role does the shikha play in Moroccan society and what status does she enjoy?

Question 63

How did Ruth Bunzel apply Boas' principles in the study of Pueblo potters?

Question 64

Define heterotopia and give an example of it in terms of art/expressive culture.

Question 65

Briefly explain the significance of hula to indigenous Hawaiians.

Question 66

The ________ displays large white cards with texts and quotations about the confiscation of the regalia that has been repatriated.

Question 67

The four intricate wampum belts were repatriated after the ________ approached the museum to return the wampum records.

Question 68

In Canadian sports ________ carries less mythic value as a symbol of national identity.

Question 69

Define theatre and its role in society.

Question 70

Briefly explain why male strip clubs are not a a reversal of traditional gender roles?

Question 71

The exhibit "Into the Heart of Africa," provided a forum for highlighting ________.

Question 72

While the media portrayed the controversy as a conflict between the ________ and ________,Shelly Butler's ethnographic analysis of the exhibit reveals the many differing views.

Question 73

What is a museum?

Question 74

What is the cultural relevance of the garden in the Taj Mahal?

Question 75

Provide two examples from the textbook of how Western influence has transformed some aspect of art/expressive culture in a non-Western context.

Question 76

How is state power symbolically demonstrated through architecture?

Question 77

________ continues to be part of a collective representation of what it means to be Canadian-a representation that ignores differences of race,ethnicity,class and gender in participation.

Question 78

"________," an experimental work performed in Toronto in 1999,draws attention to the crisis of the creative spirit of the dancer trapped within the elaborate rules of the classical Indian dance.

Question 79

The ROM was accused by the CFTA of being elitist and representing the ________.

Question 80

The great wooden houses with their painted facades and carved totem poles made by First Nations communities on the Northwest Coast of North America reflected the ________.