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Embedded symmetries, natural and cultural

Title
Embedded symmetries, natural and cultural / Dorothy K. Washburn, editor.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Washburn, Dorothy Koster.
  • Amerind Foundation.
Description
ix, 189 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.
Summary
"The ten participants in this volume explore nonrepresentational patterns from perceptual and cultural perspectives. Archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and psychologists lend their views on how patterns and symmetry are expressed and resonate in a variety of human relationships and institutions. The authors reveal how symmetric relationships in human visual, verbal, and kinesthetic manifestations are integral to cultural identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Amerind Foundation New World studies series ; no. 6
Uniform Title
Amerind Foundation New World studies series ; no. 6.
Subject
  • Symmetry
  • Symmetry (Art)
  • Material culture
  • Culture > Semiotic models
Note
  • "Published in cooperation with the Amerind Foundation."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-183) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Anne I. Woosley -- Introduction : embedded symmetries / Dorothy K. Washburn -- Ch. 1. Symmetries in development : the eye is quicker than the hand / Diane Humphrey -- Ch. 2. The perception of band patterns : going beyond geometry / Michael Kubovy and Lars Strother -- Ch. 3. Evoluntionary developments in the cognition of symmetry / Thomas Wynn -- Ch. 4. The genesis of realistic and patterned representations / Dorothy K. Washburn -- Ch. 5. Symmetry schemes on paracas necropolis textiles / Anne Paul -- Ch. 6. Jazz : an Andean sense of symmetry / Ed Franquemont -- Ch. 7. The ghost in the machine : symmetry and representation in ancient Antillean art / Peter G. Roe -- Ch. 8. Symmetry for itself, for culture, and for practice / F. Allan Hanson -- Ch. 9. Symmetry and semiotics : the case of Fijian barkcloth figuration / Rod Ewins.
ISBN
0826331521 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004011782
OCLC
  • ocm55511354
  • SCSB-5098460
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries