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Schuster, Carl; Carpenter, Edmund

 
9780810963269: Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0810963264 ISBN 13 : 9780810963269
Editeur : Harry N. Abrams, 1996

Synopsis

The American art historian, Carl Schuster (1904-1969), discovered a set of patterns designed by ancient peoples to illustrate their ideas about kinship. They tattooed and painted such "statements" on their bodies and clothing, and carved them on tools, game boards, pots, ceremonial objects, coins and other items, and carried these with them wherever they went. Through broad comparative study, Schuster decoded this iconography, which lasted over 10,000 years, crossed continents, and outlived most of the cultures that sheltered it. Having spent more than three decades gathering evidence for his study, Schuster delayed publication while he searched for more. This book, by his colleague Edmund Carpenter, distils his research to a single volume.

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À propos de l'auteur

Edmund Carpenter (b.1922) taught anthropology at the univeristy of Toronto, California, & Harvard.

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Éditeur
Harry N. Abrams
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810963264
ISBN 13 
9780810963269
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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