Kitawa
Subtitle: A Linguistic and Aesthetic Analysis of Visual Art in Melanesia (Approaches to Semiotics)
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Published: March 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9783110117660
Subjects: Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms; Wood-carving, Papuan; Folk Arts; Linguistic Anthropology; Papua New Guinea; Kitava; Ethnology; Kula exchange
First sentence: I have had very stimulating discussions with friends educated in the Anglo-Saxon tradition about the contradictions which would appear to characterize Italian civilization  for example, the dichotomy between the beauty and discipline of its art, particularly in the XVth and XVIth centuries, and the apparent lack of order in its politics.