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6 produkter
Grace of Four Moons
Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
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Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The …
Grace of Four Moons
Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India
E-bok, 2015
104 kr
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Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The …
Sacred Art
Catholic Saints and Candomble Gods in Modern Brazil
Av Henry Glassie, Pravina Shukla
Inbunden, 2017
569 kr
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Sacred art flourishes today in northeastern Brazil, where European and African religious traditions have intersected for centuries. Professional artists create images of both the Catholic saints and the African gods of Candomblé to meet the needs of a vast market of believers and art …
Folk Art
Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian
Av Henry Glassie, Pravina Shukla
Inbunden, 2023
468 kr
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Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence …
Individual and Tradition
Folkloristic Perspectives
Av Ray Cashman, Tom Mould m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition. Leading scholars in folklore studies consider how the field has addressed the connections between performer …
Costume
Performing Identities Through Dress
Häftad, 2015
454 kr
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What does it mean to people around the world to put on costumes to celebrate their heritage, reenact historic events, assume a role on stage, or participate in Halloween or Carnival? Self-consciously set apart from everyday dress, costume marks the divide between ordinary and extraordinary settings …
