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Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: Family Tree: Pebbles from North & South America

Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: Family Tree: Pebbles from North & South America

Carpenter, Edmund
Schuster, Carl
Spiess, Lorraine

Hardcover

Series: Volume 2, Book 4

Art HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 1943982074
ISBN13: 9781943982073
Publisher: Robin Brass Studio
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 312
Weight: 2.78
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

8. Vol. 2, Book 4 - Family Tree: Pebbles from North & South America

In Family Tree: Pebbles from North & South America, Carpenter looks more closely at the engraved pebbles and stele introduced earlier, closely analyzing the record of engraved stones across the Americas. Carl Schuster photographed incised stones on five continents, noting how body-designs, garment-designs & pebble-designs often employed the same tools & techniques. Carpenter argues that Schuster recognized in these examples representations of ancestral spirits and tribal lineage. As such, for Carpenter, art shares with language a capacity for cultural transmission, and is a storage system for the collective experience of the tribe.

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