Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World.

Aus der Arbeitsbibliothek von Hans-Joachim Koloss, Kurator der Afrika-Abteilung des Museums f�r V�lkerkunde Berlin. / From the working library of Hans-Joachim Koloss, curator of the African department of the Berlin Ethnography Museum. - Cover an zwei Stellen minimal eingerissen, ansonsten altersgem�tadelloser Zustand / Cover minimally torn in two places, otherwise impeccable condition for age - ETHNIC AND TOURIST ARTS -- Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World -- Edited by NELSON H. H. GRABURN -- What has happened to the so-called "primitive arts" of preindustrial societies? Museums and private collections abound with examples of these arts, but the traditions in which they were created are dying out. Native artists are still producing works of enduring beauty and originality, yet they are doing so as members of minority groups within national societies; such groups are identified here collectively as the "Fourth World" of the title. These small-scale societies, scattered all about the world, are engulfed and sometimes overwhelmed by the economic and aesthetic imperatives of the First, Second, and Third Worlds. -- Native artists have nevertheless been adaptive and resilient, developing new forms based on traditional techniques or motifs, and producing some of their work for the souvenir trade and other materials for the serious collector. More than twenty cases are examined and compared here, ranging from Navajo rugs and Eskimo soapstone sculptures which are relatively new art forms (and mainly -- commercial in intent) to the more traditional Maori wood carvings and Shipibo- Conibo pottery. Other cases such as the watercolor paintings of Namatjira of Australia and the Santa Fe Indian School paintings have been adapted from purely European forms with some concessions made to ethnic flavor and content. -- Both collectors and scholars will find this book indispensable to an understanding and appreciation of Fourth World arts. -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Arts of the Fourth World, by Nelson H. H. Graburn -- NORTH AMERICA -- Introduction -- Eskimo Art: The Eastern Canadian Arctic, by Nelson H. H. Graburn -- Functional Aspects of Haida Argillite Carvings, by Carole N. Kaufmann -- The Creative Consumer: Survival, Revival, and Invention in Southwest Indian Arts, by J. J. Brody -- Pueblo and Navajo Weaving Traditions and the Western World, by Kate Peck Kent -- Ceramic Arts and Acculturation at Laguna, by Robert R. Gill -- MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA -- Introduction -- Seri Ironwood Carving: An Economic View, by Scott EI. Ryerson -- Modern Ceramics in the Teotihuacan Valley, by Thomas H. Charlton -- The Amate Bark-Paper Paintings of Xalitla, by Gobi Stromberg -- SOUTH AMERICA -- Introduction -- The Clothing Arts of the Cuna of San Blas, Panama, by Mari Lyn Salvador -- Gourd Decoration in Highland Peru, by Ruth McDonald Boyer -- Shipibo Tourist Art, by Donald W. Lathrap -- ASIA -- Introduction -- Contemporary Ainu Wood and Stone Carving, by Setha M. Low -- The Brahmin Painters of Nathdwara, Rajasthan, by Renaldo Maduro -- OCEANIA -- Introduction -- Style Change in an Upper Sepik Contact Situation, by J. A. Abramson -- Australian Aboriginal Art at Yirrkala: The Introduction and Development of -- Marketing, by Nancy Williams -- The Production of Native Art and Craft Objects in Contemporary New Zealand -- Society, by Sidney M. Mead -- AFRICA -- Introduction -- Changing African Art, by William Bascom -- "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu�: On Being an Ebony-Carver in Benin, by Paula -- Ben-Amos -- The Decline of Lega Sculptural Art, by Daniel P. Biebuyck -- Functional and Tourist Art Along the Okavango River, by B. H. Sandelowsky -- Credits for Specimens Illustrated -- Photographers' Credits -- Bibliography -- Index. ISBN 9780520029491