Chapter Thirteen Flashcards
(12 cards)
Expressive Culture
Behaviors and beliefs related to art, leisure, and play
Art
The application of imagination, skill, and style to matter, movement, and sound that goes beyond what is purely practical
Ethno-esthetics
Culturally specific definitions of what art is
Ethnomusicology
The cross-cultural study of music
Theater
A form of enactment, related to other forms such as dance, music, parades, competitive games and sports, and verbal art, that seeks to entertain through acting, movement, and sound
Heterotopia
Something formed from elements drawn from multiple and diverse contexts
Museum
An institution that collects, preserves, interprets, and displays objects on a relgular basis
Repatriation
Returning art or other objects from museums to the people with whom they originated
Wa
A Japanese word meaning discipline and self-sacrifice for the good of the group
Blood Sport
A competition that explicitly seeks to bring about a flow of blood from, or even the death of, a human-human contestants, human-animal contestants, or animal-animal contestants
Material Cultural Heritage
The sites, monuments, buildings, and movable objects considered to have outstanding value to humanity
Intangible Cultural Heritage
UNESCO’s view of culture as manifested in oral tradition, languages, performing arts, rituals, and festive events, knowledge and practices about nature, the universe and craft making.
