#26 - Concept Reference, Must Be True

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (C).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):


This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[vangorgc]

Hi Powerscore -

I was caught between A and C. Can you explain why A would be wrong? I thought "imagined" would imply that this relationship was not the case, but that he drew conclusions with it anyways. The author refutes his idea that Anglo culture was as influential as he says it was, so I figured that would work. (I chose A originally but C on BR... couldn't explain well why one was better than the other)

[Robert Carroll]

van,

I think answer choice (A) can be disposed of by considering that the reference to "Anglo art" in the answer has no match in the passage. According to Amsden, Navajo art changed styles because of Anglo influences and encouragement, but nowhere does it say that the influence and encouragement was from examples of Anglo art. If we follow Amsden, we may know what Anglos wanted Navajo art to contain - we don't know what Anglo art contained. The influence could comprise Anglo preferences (line 14 seems to indicate this) without being something that art produced by Anglos actually involved.

In short, we don't know what features Anglo art had, so that part of answer choice (A) cannot be supported.

Robert Carroll

[vangorgc]

van,

I think answer choice (A) can be disposed of by considering that the reference to "Anglo art" in the answer has no match in the passage. According to Amsden, Navajo art changed styles because of Anglo influences and encouragement, but nowhere does it say that the influence and encouragement was from examples of Anglo art. If we follow Amsden, we may know what Anglos wanted Navajo art to contain - we don't know what Anglo art contained. The influence could comprise Anglo preferences (line 14 seems to indicate this) without being something that art produced by Anglos actually involved.

In short, we don't know what features Anglo art had, so that part of answer choice (A) cannot be supported.

Robert Carroll

Thanks Robert!

[jwooon]

Hello,

While working on this question, I was stuck between (C) and (D). I chose answer (D) based on the last paragraph about how border and band style might be not as different as Amsden make it out to be (maybe this is not what the paragraph was about? I really had trouble understanding this passage fully). I thought that this paragraph implied that Amsden did not look at some specimen with different style that the author did look at (like the Chief White Antelope blanket) and this was the reason why Amsden did not reach the same conclusion. What is flawed in my reasoning?

The reason why I did not choose (C) was because I thought Amsden did take into account all of the aspects of Navajo weaving because the I thought Amsden did have a view on different aspects of Navajo weaving that the author questioned (ie. the "several questions" that the author raised to counter Amsden's view).

[Dana D]

Hey Jwoon,

Let's look at answer choice (D) - the claim in question can be found in the second paragraph starting at line (11). Amsden says the bordered style is influenced by Anglo culture. In the following paragraphs, the author challenges this claim, by discussing what is involved in altering artistic styles, looking at the relationship between the banded versus bordered styles, and questioning whether there really is a significant stylistic gap between the two styles at all.

Amsden's reasoning for his argument is confined to the second paragraph - the number so specimens of styles Amsden analyzed or considered is not really discussed, so it's unclear if that is even something essential to Amsden's argument. We want to look at what the author is suggesting in regards to Amsden's argument anyway, so we need to focus on the points the author raises in the subsequent paragraphs. The 'aspects of Navajo weaving' that Amsden might not have considered would be the 3 questions the author raises - the method of changing artistic styles, the relationship between banded versus bordered, and the 2 other styles between banded and bordered that exist.

Hope that helps!