Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts /
In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies.The body o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2011]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1. The Collectors
- 2. Iconography and Style
- 3. Worship and Ritual
- 4. The Santa Cruz Island World View: Cultural Assumptions and Mythology
- 5. Myths of the Santa Cruz Island Dukna
- Notes
- A Catalogue of Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture
- References
- Index
- Author Note