ISBN:
9781138928794
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 483 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bunn, Stephanie Anthropology and Beauty
DDC:
701.17
Keywords:
Schönheit
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Ästhetik
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Anthropology and beauty: introduction -- PART I Beauty and pattern -- 2 The problem with beauty: an anthropological perspective -- 3 The material labour of artful mathematics -- PART II Beauty as grace -- 4 With beauty all around me, I walk -- 5 The unexpected gift of beauty -- 6 Beauty and captivation: Fuyuge gab and Gellâs anthropological theory of art -- 7 The continual changes: transforming art styles in Enlightenment Scotland and beyond -- PART III Perceiving beauty -- 8 Grace in moving and joy in sharing: the intrinsic Beauty of communicative musicality from birth -- 9 The Favourite Sounds Project -- 10 Colour palettes and beauty -- 11 Aso iyi, aso eye: resplendence and the Yoruba prestige textile aso-oke -- PART IV Beauty and skill -- 12 Beauty as a capacity: a study of hands-in-craft -- 13 Cinematographersâ skilled vision and aesthetic praxis -- 14 Beauty as skill and âcommon sensingâ -- PART V Beauty, the body and performance -- 15 Fleshly beauty: an anthropological perspective -- 16 Beauty in motion: collective creativity in contemporary dance -- 17 Surprised by beauty: Imagining Autism -- PART VI Beauty in space and time -- 18 Threshold and temporality in architecture: practices of movement in Japanese architecture -- 19 Carbuncles, surfaces and beautiful built environments -- 20 Paradigms of transmission: aesthetic affinities and intertextualities in the art of Will Maclean -- 21 Beauty and belonging -- PART VII Beauty, work and design -- 22 Beauty and economy -- 23 Mysterious equations: formulating good design for Textiles U.S.A. -- 24 Engineering as a process of beauty -- 25 Collaborative forms -- PART VIII Beauty as synthesis -- 26 Appropriation, imitation and creation: glass beadwork among Panará people -- 27 The beauty of sand-drawing in Vanuatu: kinship and continuity on Paama Island -- 28 The beautiful and the blessed: brightness, balance and bones in Kyrgyz shyrdak felt -- 29 From the North with my cello, or, five propositions on beauty -- Index
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