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Primal arts: Native Americans, Eskimos, & aborigines / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter ; [translated by David Wharry].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York, NY : Assouline, c2006.Description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 2843238242
  • 9782843238246
Uniform titles:
  • Arts premiers. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.011 GEO
Contents:
The Tainos -- Mesoamerica -- South and Central America -- North America -- The Arctic world -- Epilogue: The consecration of aboriginal art.
Holdings
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709.011 GEO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000186594

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"one of the main points that all Pre-Columbian societies have in common is the clos relationship that the Indians maintained, and still maintain, with nature, which they consider a universal and generous mother. The Indian can therefore not conceive, as Western man does today, of a separation between the human being and the animal kingdom. His very survival deoends to a large extent on nature, and the control he has over it depends on the knowledge he acquires from it" - Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter

Translation of: Arts premiers.

Companion volume to: Primal arts: Africa, Oceania and the Southeast Asian islands.

Volume designation from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-398).

The Tainos -- Mesoamerica -- South and Central America -- North America -- The Arctic world -- Epilogue: The consecration of aboriginal art.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: "Through the looking glass" (p. 7)
  • The Tainos
  • Or the First Encounter (p. 18)
  • Mesoamerica
  • An Art of Blood and Fury (p. 40)
  • The Olmec Mystery or the Disturbing Smile of the Child-Jaguar-Changling (p. 68)
  • In the Shadows of the Pyramids of Teotihuacan (p. 84)
  • The Mayan Golden Age (p. 98)
  • Atlantes and Warriors: Toltec Military Art (p. 128)
  • The Aztecs, or the Twilight of the Gods (p. 140)
  • South and Central America
  • The Mirage of El Dorado (p. 164)
  • The Tears of the Sun (p. 190)
  • The Kingdom of the Birdmen (p. 214)
  • Panamanian Psychedelic Ceramics (p. 240)
  • North America
  • More Indian Than Indian (p. 250)
  • Masks and Totems of the Northwest Coast (p. 260)
  • Painted Buffalo Hides of the Plains Indians (p. 274)
  • The Dance of the Kachina Dolls (p. 288)
  • The Arctic World
  • The Call of the Far North (p. 314)
  • The Hallucinatory Art of the Artic People (p. 325)
  • Shamanic Icons (p. 348)
  • Epilogue: the consecration of aboriginal art (p. 370)
  • Maps (p. 388)
  • Chronology (p. 394)
  • Selected Bibliography (p. 396)
  • Acknowlegments (p. 399)
  • Photography Credits (p. 100)

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