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Chapter 14 Student Quiz 1
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Thrones, staffs, shrines, and distinctive or ornamented objects are often used to display people's
beauty.
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art.
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power.
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aesthetic criteria.
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Seeing African artistic traditions as examples of poor craftsmanship is
ethnocentric.
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lazy.
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beautiful.
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Anthropologists look at objects
the same way art historians do.
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as objects incorporated into everyday life and usage.
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according to physical properties only.
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primarily according to their aesthetic criteria.
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Museums were the __________ place where anthropologists studied objects and art.
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last
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most important
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least important
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When anthropologists look at an object according to how, where, why, and for whom it was produced, which dimension are they looking at?
height
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weight
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history
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volume
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__________ refers to the quality of being physical or material.
Materiality
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Aesthetics
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Art
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Repatriation
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There are some objects that are simply too utilitarian to be of interest to anthropologists.
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An anthropologist studying cultures of mass consumption would be least interested in
religious imagery in southern Pentecostal churches.
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monthly clothing subscription services.
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used car sales practices.
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public fervor over the release of a new smartphone.
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The changing meanings and significance that objects take over time is referred to as
the long durée of consumer goods.
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historical materiality.
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upcycling.
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the social life of things.
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Which of the following is not part of the career of a pair of shoes?
the marketing campaign created upon the shoes' introduction to the market
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an employee selling the shoes at a mall
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a kid throwing out the shoes after they started to fall apart
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a factory worker stitching the insole
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Objects in museum collections
can give a complete picture of the culture from which they came.
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will only be displayed with the consent of the creator.
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are isolated from their original cultural context.
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were never utilitarian in purpose.
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How do Native American tribes view heritage management?
They emphasize spiritual connections to the past.
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They view land as important for future development.
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They advocate for traditional archeological methods of exploration.
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They see heritage resources as only tangible places and things.
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