Research Catalog

Title

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas : selected readings / edited with critical introductory essays by Janet Catherine Berlo, Lee Anne Wilson.

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Berlo, Janet Catherine.
• Wilson, Lee Anne.

Description

viii, 392 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Art
• Ethnic art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Aesthetic Systems: Knowledge, Beauty, and Power / Janet Catherine Berlo. 1. Accumulation: Power and Display In African Sculpture / Arnold Rubin. 2. An Aesthetic of the Cool / Robert Farris Thompson. 3. Melody, Drone and Decoration: Underlying Structures and Surface Manifestations in Tongan Art and Society / Adrienne L. Kaeppler. 4. The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Zuni Ritual and Cosmology as an Aesthetic System / Barbara Tedlock -- Pt. 2. The Artist as Individual / Janet Catherine Berlo. 5. The Buli Master, and Other Hands / Susan Mullin Vogel. 6. Talania and Nake, Master Carver and Apprentice: Two Woodcarvers from the Kilenge (Western New Britain) / Adrian A. Gerbrands. 7. Will the Real Charles Edensaw Please Stand Up?: The Problem of Attribution in Northwest Coast Indian Art / Bill Holm -- Pt. 3. Art and Social Structure / Lee Anne Wilson. 8. Mask Makers and Myth in Western Liberia / Warren L. d'Azevedo. 9. Kuba Embroidered Cloth / Monni Adams.
• 10. Humans and Animals in Benin Art / Paula Girshick Ben-Amos. 11. Kinshape: The Design of the Hawaiian Feather Cloak / Tom Cummins. 12. The Weight of My Name Is a Mountain of Blankets: Potlatch Ceremonies / Stanley Walens -- Pt. 4. Passages: Arts of Festival, Ritual, and Initiation / Lee Anne Wilson. 13. The Art of Festival in Ghana / Herbert M. Cole. 14. Woman Power and Art in a Senufo Village / Anita J. Glaze. 15. Masking in Mende Sande Society Initiation Rituals / Ruth B. Phillips. 16. On Representing Ancestral Beings / Howard Morphy. 17. Form, Function and Interpretation of Mimbres Ceramic Hemispheric Vessels / Barbara L. Moulard -- Pt. 5. Shelter as Symbol: Uses and Meanings of Architectural Space / Lee Anne Wilson. 18. The Dance of Death: Notes on the Architecture and Staging of Tamberma Funeral Performances / Suzanne Preston Blier. 19. Dutch Galleons and South Nias Palaces / Jerome A. Feldman.
• 20. The Pueblo and the Hogan: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Two Responses to an Environment / Amos Rapoport -- Pt. 6. Continuity and Change in Fourth World Arts / Janet Catherine Berlo. 21. Purity and Pollution in Freetown Masked Performance / John Nunley. 22. Tradition in Native American Art / J. C. H. King. 23. Lakota Beaded Costumes of the Early Reservation Era / Marsha Clift Bol. 24. Straddling the Cultural Fence: The Conflict for Ethnic Artists within Pueblo Societies / Edwin L. Wade.

ISBN

0137562306

LCCN

91045137

OCLC

• 25025842
• ocm25025842
• SCSB-14524493

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries