Question 1

Games and sports are models for a culture.Discuss.

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Question 2

Provide examples of repatriation conflicts that have taken place between First Nations peoples and Canadian museums.Was NAGRPA useful in this settlement process?

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Question 3

Explain the concept of ethno-esthetics.

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Question 4

What is ethnomusicology?

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Question 5

How is art tied to identity? Discuss providing ethnographic examples.

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Question 6

What role do museums play in society? Discuss.

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Question 7

Describe the recommendations made by the Task Force on Museums and First Peoples in 1989?

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Question 8

What are international examples of states seeking to repatriate art and museum pieces? Discuss the politics of repatriation at the global level.

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Question 9

What is art? Discuss using both the traditional Western view of art and the anthropological understanding of art.

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Question 10

Name a game that anthropologists have studied and discuss one of the findings.

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Question 11

What is involved in the conceptual differences,in the English language,between fine art and folk art? Discuss some examples of art mentioned in the textbook (such as Venus figurines,hula,Russian icons,etc. )and whether or not the categories of fine art or folk art are useful.

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Question 12

What is an insight that comes from the anthropological study of tourism?

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Question 13

"Into the Heart Of Africa" was the Royal Ontario Museum's most controversial exhibit.Why?

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Question 14

What is the role of globalization and syncretism in the performing arts? Discuss using ethnographic examples.

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Question 15

How do anthropologists study paleolithic art?

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Question 16

The complexity of this process can be seen in the repatriation of objects confiscated by the Canadian government in 1922 following a large "illegal" potlatch held in Alert Bay,British Columbia.Discuss this statement with suitable examples.

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Question 17

Discuss how the teaching and performance of Hindu dance-dramas in Canadian cities offer opportunities to observe processes of cultural change and adaptation?

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Question 18

What is a shikhat?

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Quiz 13: Expressive Culture