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Patterns that connect : social symbolism in ancient & tribal art / Carl Schuster & Edmund Carpenter.

Summary:

Travelers & scholars have long been puzzled by similarities in the arts of diverse ancient & tribal cultures. It remained for the American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969) to discover a set of patterns designed by ancient peoples to illustrate their ideas about kinship. Schuster succeeded in decoding this iconography, which lasted over ten thousand years, crossed continents, & outlived most of the cultures that sheltered it.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0810963264
  • ISBN: 9780810963269
  • Physical Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Times Mirror Company"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 317).
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Family Tree -- 2. Genealogical Patterns -- 3. Bodies & Hands as Kinship Charts -- 4. Social Bodies -- 5. Mosaic Garments -- 6. Compartmented Robes -- 7. Incised Stones -- 8. Rebirth.
Subject:
Art, Primitive.
Art, Ancient.
Folk art.
Material culture.
Symbolism in art.
Art, Ancient.
Art, Primitive.
Folk art.
Material culture.
Symbolism in art.
Genre:
Nonfiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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