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Author Were, Graeme, author.

Title Lines that connect : rethinking pattern and mind in the Pacific
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One. Loci: Lines That Connect -- Two. Congruence: Pattern as the Art of Connecting -- Three. Asymmetries: Pattern, Performance, and Mission Christianity -- Four. Symmetries: Pattern, Belief, and the Baha'i Faith -- Five. Repetition: The Logic of Pattern -- Six. Tangents: Pattern as the Fabric of Thought -- Seven. Trajectories: Pattern in Transition -- Eight. On the Mathematical Mind -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, this title treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. It contributes to the analysis of pattern and decorative art in the Pacific
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes English
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 25, 2016)
Subject Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) -- Material culture -- Papua New Guinea -- New Ireland Province
Nalik (Papua New Guinean people)
Pattern perception -- Papua New Guinea -- New Ireland Province
Nalik (Papua New Guinean people) -- Material culture
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) -- Papua New Guinea -- New Ireland Province
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Nalik (Papua New Guinean people)
Pattern perception
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts)
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Decorative Arts.
Visual Arts.
Mustererkennung.
Ethnologie.
Papua New Guinea -- New Ireland Province
Neuirland.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 082487045X
9780824870454
0824860489
9780824860486
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