{"id":5124,"date":"2023-02-25T04:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T04:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/information-as-a-resource\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T04:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T04:19:44","slug":"information-as-a-resource","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/information-as-a-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Information As a Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a anthropology discussion question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p>Dissanayake argues that in art, the ordinary is made extraordinary through the use of exaggeration and embellishment. Mithen, too, discusses the use of exaggeration in art. He notes that, in the Upper Paleolithic art of Western Europe, animals are often depicted with distorted bodies, with the fatty tissues and\/or antlers\/horns exaggerated, or with body parts missing. He argues that this was done to emphasize a part of the body or a behavior that provides information about the animal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sex, age, and\/or condition.<br \/>Choose one of the pictures below and discuss it in terms of (1) body partS that are exaggerated or otherwise \u00e2\u20ac\u0153embellished\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd to attract attention, (2) the use of line, form, pattern, and\/or color to achieve this exaggeration\/embellishment, <strong>AND<\/strong> (3) the information relevant to hunting provided by the body parts that are emphasized (you will have to refer to Mithen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article for this part). In your response you may mention the use of twisted perspective and geometric marks (as tracks, vegetation), if applicable.<\/p>\n<p>Word length: 300<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a anthropology discussion question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn. Dissanayake argues that in art, the ordinary is made extraordinary through the use of exaggeration and embellishment. Mithen, too, discusses the use of exaggeration in art. He notes that, in the Upper Paleolithic art of Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[703],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/5124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/5124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}