Kitawa
Subtitle: A linguistic and aesthetic analysis of visual art in Melanesia (Approaches to semiotics)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 1990
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780899255026
Subjects: Kitava; Canoes and canoeing; Wood-carving, Papuan; Ship decoration; Papua New Guinea
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.