Download or read book Beauty in Context written by Wilfried van Damme and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to survey the field of the anthropology of aesthetics, which during the last few decades has emerged on the cross-roads between anthropology and non-Western art scholarship. While critically examining the available literature, thereby addressing such basic issues as the existence of aesthetic universals, the author elaborates on a central thesis which concerns the relationship between aesthetic preference and sociocultural ideals. Drawing on empirical data from several African cultures, he demonstrates that varying notions of beauty are inspired by varying sociocultural ideals, thus shedding light on the phenomenon of cultural relativism in aesthetic preference. Emphasizing unity within diversity, the systematic anthropological approach offered in this volume invites the reader to reconsider aesthetic preference from an empirical, cross-cultural, and contextual perspective.

Download or read book For Spirits and Kings written by Susan Mullin Vogel and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1981 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Native Arts Of North America Africa And The South Pacific written by George A. Corbin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies in depth thirty-six art styles within all three areas using the methods of art history, including stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation. Emphasis is on the art in cultural context and as a system of visual communication within each tribal area. Where appropriate for a more complete understanding of the art, data from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, religion, and other humanistic disciplines are included.Among the peoples and cultures whose art is studied are the Haida, Kwakiutl, and Tlingit; the Hohokam and Mongollon, the Anasazi and Hopi; the Dogon and Bamana of Mali; the Asante of Ghana; the Benin, Yoruba, and Ibo of Nigeria; the Fan, the Bamum, and the Kuba of Central Africa; Australian aboriginal and Island New Guinea art; Island Melanesia art; central and eastern Polynesia; Hawaii and the Maori in Marginal Polynesia.The format of the text and selected illustrations is based on seventeen years of teaching African, North American Indian, and South Pacific art to undergraduate and graduate students at Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), New York University, and Columbia University. The book is intended for art history and anthropology students and the interested lay reader or collector. The detailed notes at the end of the book are for further study, research, and understanding of the tribal art style under discussion.

Download or read book Baule Statuary Art written by Philip L. Ravenhill and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Structure and Cognition in Art written by Dorothy K. Washburn and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-07-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this 1983 volume present an innovative and unified approach to the archaeological analysis and interpretation of art and design.

Download or read book Apprenticeship written by Michael William Coy and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenon of apprenticeship by exploring it as a social, economic, and educational institution. Studies of apprenticeship in both craft occupations and supernatural specializations in Africa, Latin America, North America, and Asia are offered. The authors also look at apprenticeship as a method in anthropological field research. Many of the contributors have apprenticed themselves in other-cultural settings, providing a unique marriage of subject and method in cross-cultural research. Esther N. Goody provides a summary look at learning, apprenticeship and the division of labor.

Download or read book Being Humans written by Neil Roughley and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Art from the Rita and John Grunwald Collection written by Diane Pelrine and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog of some 70 objects with descriptive text. No color except on the cover. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Download or read book Museums and Innovations written by Zvjezdana Antos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents sixteen thoughtful essays which address innovative ways to present cultural heritage primarily in ethnographic and social history museums through recent permanent, temporary, and mobile exhibitions. The essays included are taken from the different vantage points; they prompt critical debate about new ways of thinking and working in museums of different sizes, with regard for how we might work collaboratively towards a more equitable future. Essential political issues related to power and the strong influences of the museum are addressed in each section, especially with regards to the presentation of particular cultures and communities.

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Download or read book Art and Religion in Africa written by Rosalind Hackett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's religious and artistic traditions constitute a primary example of its intellectual and cultural vitality. Artistic works play a vital role - especially where oral traditions dominate - in communicating ideas about the relationship between the human, spiritual and natural worlds. This work is a comparative study of Africa's visual and performing arts, concentrating on their geographical, material and gendered diversity, and focusing on the relation of these arts to African religion. The author combines ethnographic and art-historical methodology but does not assume any prior knowledge of African art or African religion. The text seeks a greater understanding of the philosophical and religious aspects of African art, thus challenging western perceptions of what is "important" in terms of artistic representation. This approach reveals the transformative capacities and multi-dimensionality of African art. The work also highlights the changes brought about by Christianity, Islam and the newer religious movements in post-colonial Africa.

Download or read book List of Titles Added to the Catalogue written by University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Faces African Figures written by Alain Nicolas and published by Museum for African Art/Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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