Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas : selected readings / edited with critical introductory essays by Janet Catherine Berlo, Lee Anne Wilson.
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[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: Aesthetic systems : knowledge, beauty, and power / Janet Catherine Berlo.
- Accumulation : power and display in African sculpture / Arnold Rubin
- An aesthetic of the cool / Robert Farris Thompson
- Melody, drone and decoration : underlying structures and surface manifestations in Tongan art and society / Adrienne L. Kaeppler
- The beautiful and the dangerous : Zuni ritual and cosmology as an aesthetic system / Barbara Tedlock
- Part Two: The artist as individual / Janet Catherine Berlo.
- The Buli Master, and other hands / Susan Mullin Vogel
- Talania and Nake, master carver and apprentice : two woodcarvers from the Kilenge (Western New Britain) / Adrian A. Gerbrands
- Will the real Charles Edensaw please stand up? : the problem of attribution in Northwest Coast Indian art / Bill Holm
- Part Three: Art and social structure / Lee Anne Wilson
- Mask makers and myth in western Liberia / Warren L. d'Azevedo
- Kuba embroidered cloth / Monni Adams
- Humans and animals in Benin art / Paula Girshick Ben-Amos
- Kinshape : the design of the Hawaiian feather cloak / Tom Cummins
- The weight of my name is a mountain of blankets : potlatch ceremonies / Stanley Walens
- Part Four: Passages : arts of festival, ritual, and initiation / Lee Anne Wilson.
- The art of festival in Ghana / Herbert M. Cole
- Woman power and art in a Senufo village / Anita J. Glaze
- Masking in Mende Sande society initiation rituals / Ruth B. Phillips
- On representing ancestral beings / Howard Morphy
- Form, function and interpretation of Mimbres ceramic hemispheric vessels / Barbara L. Moulard
- Part Five: Shelter as symbol : uses and meanings of architectural space / Lee Anne Wilson.
- The dance of death : notes on the architecture and staging of Tamberma funeral performances / Suzanne Preston Blier
- Dutch galleons and South Nias palaces / Jerome A. Feldman
- The pueblo and the hogan : a cross-cultural comparison to two responses to an environment / Amos Rapoport
- Part Six: Continuity and change in Fourth World arts / Janet Catherine Berlo.
- Purity and pollution in Freetown masked performance / John Nunley
- Tradition in Native American art / J.C.H. King
- Lakota beaded costumes of the early reservation era / Marsha Clift Bol
- Straddling the cultural fence : the conflict for ethnic artists within Pueblo societies / Edwin L. Wade.
