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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Cordwell, Justine M.
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin ;Boston :
Publication Dates: [2011]
©1979
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: World anthropology
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110810240
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Carrier Form: 1 online resource (818pages).
ISBN: 9783110810240
Index Number: N72
CLC: J0-05
Contents: Frontmatter --
General Editor's Preface --
Table of Contents --
Introduction --
Proceedings of the Pre-Congress Conference on Art and Anthropology --
Proceedings of the Congress Session on the Visual and Performing Arts --
PART ONE Theory and Methodology --
Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics --
The Feeling of Architectonic Form: Residual and Emergent Qualities in Fang Cult and Culture --
Structural Studies of Art Styles --
An Inquiry into the Nature of Folktales and Folk Arts --
The Production of Aesthetic Values --
Notes on the Sociology of Art --
PART TWO Art in Its Cultural Setting --
Witchcraft Belief in the Explanation of Traditional African Iconography --
Grave Sculptures of the Dakakari --
Baule and Yoruba Art Criticism: A Comparison --
Tea House Paintings in Iran --
The Chalk Figures of Southern New Ireland and the Gazelle Peninsula and Their Relationship to Other South Pacific Areas --
A Painted Bark Shelter in Central Arnhem Land --
PART THREE Art and Change in Form, Content and Meaning: The Creative Innovator, Acculturation and Ethnohistory --
Artistic Expression and Creative Process in Caribbean Possession Cult Rituals --
Images of the White Man in Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Art --
From Folk Art to Fine Art: The Emergence of the Name Artist Among the Southwest Indians --
Taiwanese Shadow Puppets and the Development of Shadow Theater --
Latin American Folk Arts and Crafts and Their Sources --
Human Imponderables in the Study of African Art --
The Influence of African Art on African-American Art --
On Exhibiting African Art --
Folk Decorative and Applied Arts as a Source for the Study of Ethnogenesis: A Case Study of Turkmenians --
Art and History in West Africa: Two Case Studies --
PART FOUR The Role of Art in Archeology: The Reconstruction of Cultures --
Maya and Teotihuac n Traits in Classic Maya Vase Painting of the et n --
The Relationship Between Painting and Scripts --
Ethnological Studies on Ancient C