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In Conjunction with Cultural Anthropology - Touro Institute

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3. aesthetic experience<br />

4. expressive culture<br />

5. play<br />

6. festivals<br />

7. game<br />

8. sport<br />

9. art<br />

10. music<br />

11. ethnomusicology<br />

12. scale<br />

15. dance<br />

16. verbal arts<br />

17. myths<br />

18. legends<br />

19. rhetoric<br />

20. folktales<br />

21. proverbs<br />

22. riddles<br />

23. jokes<br />

a. a cultural expression of feeling and meaning in a form that evokes an aesthetic<br />

experience in the participant or observer<br />

b. rhythmically patterned human movement performed for aesthetic pleasure<br />

c. short statements that illustrate the basic values of a culture<br />

d. a competitive activity involving physical skills, strategy, and chance in a model of a<br />

conflict-producing real-life situation<br />

e. syllables that have no individual meanings<br />

f. formal speech that follows the traditional rules of a particular culture<br />

g. expressions of culture such as play, ritual, or the arts<br />

h. stories that recount the origin of such things as gods, the universe, animals, and plants<br />

i. things said to incite laughter<br />

j. the study of music and its relationship to culture<br />

k. the pleasure we feel when we recognize something as beautiful<br />

l. the timing and stressing of tones <strong>with</strong>in a melody<br />

m. the area of a culture to which a society devotes its aesthetic effort<br />

n. scheduled public, secular rituals<br />

o. mental puzzles told for entertainment<br />

p. various forms of speaking for aesthetic pleasure<br />

q. stories told for entertainment that teach a moral principle or a practical lesson<br />

r. a stepwise sequence of tones separated by set intervals, from which melodies are<br />

constructed.<br />

s. rhythmically organized scaled tones that produce melodic sound<br />

t. the rules by which beauty is to be evaluated in a culture<br />

u. stress-relieving ritualistic practice of potentially utilitarian behaviors<br />

v. aggressively competitive activity played according to strict rules<br />

w. stories that describe heroes and heroines who are usually responsible for the origin of<br />

a culture or society<br />

True/False - Chapter 7: Aesthetics and Culture<br />

True<br />

False<br />

1. Most of the languages of non-literate societies have a word for art.

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