Essays on the verbal and visual arts.
By: June Helm, editor.
Contributors: Helm, June, 1924- ed.
Series: Its Proceedings of the annual spring meeting,; 1966
Publisher: Distributed by the University of Washington Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Ethnology -- Congresses.; Art, Primitive -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
--Special features of the sung communication, by A. Lomax.--The study of ethno-aesthetics: the visual arts, by P. J. C. Dark.--The complementarity of statistics and feeling in the study of art, by A. W. Wolfe.--Seminole men's clothing, by W. C. Sturtevant.--The cultural context of creativity among Tiwi, by J. C. Goodale and J. D. Koss.--The present status of sculptural art among the tribes of the Ivory Coast, by H. Himmelheber.--Oral tradition and art history in the Sepik District, New Guinea, by D. Newton.
Table of contents: title: The induced natural context: an ethnographic folklore field technique, by K. S. Goldstein.; title: Hopi rabbit-hunt chants: a ritualized language, by R. A. Black.; title: Narrative analysis: oral versions of personal experience, by W. Labov and J. Waletzky.; title: Revitalized words from The parrot's egg, and The bull that crashes in the kraal: African cult sermons, by J. W. Fernandez.; title: Javanese clown and transvestite songs: some relations between primitive classification and communicative events, by J. L. Peacock.; title: Computers in the bush: tools for the automatic analysis of myths, by P. Maranda.; title: The cattle of the forest and the harvest of water: the cosmology of Finnish magic, by E. Köngäs Maranda.; title: Utopian rhetoric: conversion and conversation in a Japanese cult, by D. W. Plath.