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Lulua Potter
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Women's at is utilitarian (purpose of living) Best known from these female figures which were believerd to newborns and their mothers. The elaborate hairstyle intricate scarification and prominent navels are considered beautiful in women.
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Djenne Equestrian
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Oldest owned back to 16 century. Horse and riders is a universal power symbol. Male of clay from kingdom that no longer exist. The equestrian is noteworthy because of its depiction of a horse, an animal not indigenous to Africa. Because horses in this area required so much care and maintenance, their presence usually indicated a society with the wealth and resource to ensure their well being. once great empire
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fulani earrings
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display wealth with gold. add more and more gold as you gain wealth. emphasize their physical beauty and elaborate adornments are used to draw attention to their appearance which they take immense pride in. women regularly decorate themselves in gold, silver and amber. wore in all occasions
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bamana figure
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idealized female figure long angular face, elongated neck torso (body), cones represent motherhood, palms forward represent submission to men
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senufo staff
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it is females figure used in annual agricultural harvest. Fat women is equivalent a rich to a harvest
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Baga Natrue spirit
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suggest protection on village like an entrance to a gated comunity stand about 3 1/2-4 ft tall
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Nomoli Soapstone
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its very small like 6" placed on ground where seeds. It means protection land from birds, pests, and thieves; like strw man. if it doesnt work, smash them and make new one
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baule blolo bla
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spiritual lover- the baule believe that before people are born into this world they have a spouse in the other world, and that these spouses occasionally become angry or jealous and disturb the lives of their living partners.
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akan pendant
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make from gold "small face on it" Function is as necklace
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mande mask
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use in agriculture - mask is worn over the head of a female elder who dances fromt eh sande women's society. The mask displays and celebrates mande ideals of female beauty and virtue.
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akan akua'ba
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when a woman wants to get married or want to have chldren, she has one made and keep it in her pocket
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akan adinkra cloth
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define religion, muslim, words
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is there a universal aesthetics?
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No
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Can we understand picasso's Guernica without Picasso's history history?
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NO
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it is depicting the nazi german bombing of Guernica, spain, by twenty-four bombers, on april 26 1937 during the spancish civil war...
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anti war painting
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can we understand facial scarification without social context?
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NO
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What does aesthetics mean to the west and the rest?
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western world: art is in museums while the rest is seeing objects
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why many societies have no word for art?
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they express art in other ways
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How to find the locus of art is societies that have no art?
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where are people to play creativity
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the infamous MOMA exhibit
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museums and what they signify
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the rockefellers wing of the met:
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art as commodity
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david rockefeller
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art as furniture
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james baldwin
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african art as harlem experiences
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william rubin
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african art as picasso
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jacques maquest wrote
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" anthropology of aesthetics" and "intoduction to anthropological experiences"
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susan vogel wrote
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" angles on african art"
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james baldwin on
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" a yoruba man on a bike"
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alexander baumgartner wrote
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"Aesthetica in 1650" Greek word as "tene (teckne)" meaning "well done"
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painting ( Guernica anti war)
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Picasso anti war painting Spain civil war
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Painting Les demoiselles d' avignon
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picasso loves women and he was also afriad of sexual diseases
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omon Be akpa Se Ere Akon-
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"child that the spirit filed teeth for spirit" In Mangbetu art gaps between the teeth are considered God Given and marks of beauty
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asmat
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tree people
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bis ceremony
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head hunting
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cutting mangrove tree
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spirit
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agape
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the artist
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sago palm
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90 percent diet
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sago palm
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head of enemy ( assave leach ozcyamde)
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palm grub beetle
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edible
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religious carvings
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of themselve, deities
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praying mantis
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eats husband
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mantis motif
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eating victims brain
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wild boar
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nose pieces symbol as a warrior
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pig
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as family /people
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cigarette
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smoke even the children
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jacques maquest wrote
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he became a buddhis in south india. Western art is too narrowly focused, ethnocentic ( representation, display, sculptures, and painting). Western art as the art of academy, the masterpiece syndrome and captial A. He suggest we should focus on aesthetic notion or locus and theat focus is a meditative technique. Contemplating the navel (Center)
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Baldwin
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view the object as confrontational. another argument is that is simply represents a god in the form of a man with his pith helment representing colonial power. The bicycle is the most important aspect of all for riding a bicyle designates a step up from going by goot
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alexanders baumgartner
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greek word as "tene (teckne)" meaning "well done"-
1. juaida- mangbetu harp - instrument is regarded as person. to play is, the musician must place the base of the harp in his lap where the face on the harp opposes the musician. The two are said to be working "hang in hang" or "in convert as a duet" as to speak |
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yoruba man on a bicycle baldwin:
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views the object as confrontational. another agrument is that is simply represents a god in the form of a man with his pith helment representing colonial power, The bicycle is the most important aspect of all for riding a bicycle designates a step up from going by foot.
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Luba stool
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king's seat on the throne woman or female in the society called matrilineal- treat mother's side king set on the seat means mother hold her son who was a king. symbol powerful woman of social status
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fang retiguan figure
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is a stylized representation of a deceased individual and may contain some part of favorite item of the individual. IT would reside within the family abode and be bathed in palm oil ( which provides its patina) and gin or some other local alcoholic beverage.
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fanit female
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for women who want to be pregnant the fertility symbol. these are carried ont he person of a young girl and signify that she is desirous of marriage. If she is married adn yet barren it signifies that she still desired children
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bamana rider
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this is a symbol of power as demonstrated by the scarification, the long neck, the bold face and the stylized horse
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Ori
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head
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red
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power war potency
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white
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purity, health, wealth, and children
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black
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death, disease and w/c
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"igheade"
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jncion or crossroad
ideal- society - material economics |
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ndembu
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the symbology of tying on stick stuck in a termite mound
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the stick represents
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capture by weapons
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the termite mound represents
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plenty
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white
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green yellow blue
red yellow green brown |
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1990 orange county color
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teal and beige
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belief systems
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are comprised of cosmology, vale and myths and rituals
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cosmology
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theory of the universe ad the different parts of which it is constucted. it is the nature of a perceived reality. It is our religion. cosmology provides a coherent explanation of the way things are at least as the individual sees them.
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the dogon of africa believes
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each person is omprised of several vitural parts such as the Hindu/ Hindu where each individual has a pair of doubles souls one male the other female. They also believe that within each person's clavicle are embedded the eight natural seeds of the world: millet, sorghum, rice, wheat, barley, oats, rye, spelt and corn. before a boy can become a man, he must be circumcised this also true of a girl and both must be accomplished prior to marriage.
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the "Mukula Log"
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exudes red latex which represents the bloodshed by a boy when he is circumcised. the presents that red latex- nealing -adulthood musculairty - good husband
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" Mudyi tree"
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young girl come into puberty excuded white latex represents : mother's milk- female breast sucking infants- mtoher/ child bond family - the ndembu people
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myths are the stories that frame our culture
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they are generally cast on an epic scale in which heroes embody virtue and villains embody the vices. the myths often deal with where we came from and hwo society got to be where it is. Myths transmit a formalized pattern in either writeen or oral form and often express cosmolgy and values in if symbolic form
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george washington cut down cherry tree symbols the severing of ties to the old world ( england)
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the hatchet sginifies progress and clearing of the land. Paul bunion with badbe the blue ox and abe lincoln the rail splitter are symbols of those who clear the land
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cherry trees symbol
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virginity , the american cultureal calendar: its symbolic meanings the beginning form christmas - dudaeo- chirstian holiday and new years roman saturnalia
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values revolution
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independence, freedowm, nationalism, nurturance, george washington bday, martha luther king bday, abraham lincoln bda, mtoher day, memorial day and july 4
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values hope
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salvation, bounty, wonting, discovering, fighting- labor day, cloumbus day , veteran day and thanksgiving
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chapter 24 some aspects of yoruba aesthetics
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aesthetics deals with the philosophy of the beautiful as well as with the standards of value injudging art and other aspects of human life and culture. yoruba of western nigeria the beautiful is that which possessa ewa, ewa is the manigestation of the "well done" being pleasant to behold or experience, it attracts ( fanimora) eliciting adminration, honour and respect (iyi)
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ewa inu
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iwa-
synoymous with "good" or dara |
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orias
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deities- wisdom and divination
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what lack ewa is
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simply bad, buru
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yoruba man
ugly female is |
are tall (gun)
oburewa while her make counterpart is simply is "not good" - eni ti ko dara that badly |
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chapter 25 the semiotical geometry of navajo weaving
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hozho, beauty harmony and well being is found is every aspect of navajo language, art and culture not just in navajo weaving
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loom of spider woman
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navajo universe in microcosm and in metaphor
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in the weaving on a loom made of eath and sky cord, sun rays and sun halos, zigzag, falshing and sheets ligtning
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navajo weavers unites the sky father with the earth mothers and this interwove union beings together all the cosmic forces associated with fertility, fecunditiy and beatuy and power
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the jewels assoicated with 4 weaving sticks represent the colors of the 4 underworlds throug which the holy people traversed on their emergence to the surface of the earth
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these 4 sacred jewls metaphor iwth cardinal direction- 4 sacred mountains that enclosed navajo universe in the shape of diamond- animal, plants, winds and holy people
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to study navjo weaving
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navajo culture and philosophy of art. art is placed on creation rather than consumption, production rather than preservation, and design rather than display
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in native american societies
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marginal, unessential or extracurricular. art is viewed as seeing the world, and being the world
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national emblems of navajo
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born for the water and monster slayer- cultural motifs and founding weaving patterns
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5th world as a plane in the shape of a diamond
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the masks that the initiate are required through triangular- shape eye- apex outward and bases pointing inward.
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basic navajo cultural motif
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viewed vertically, motif shows a pairs of born for water's design
horizontally shows two of monster slayers |
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navajo culture expresses a partiular way of
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" seeing the gods" and seeing the world" weaving is an act of creative transformation
weaving is the hearts of navjo culture- wearver seeks personal and a universal expression of a universal theme |
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becoming a woman in okrika
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water area in delta nigeria
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irria festival
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coming out of young girls to a woman
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niger delta
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water spirit lover
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bumerao body painting
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body painting
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adomo
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great snake
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i market square
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community recognitin ticketing
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egbelereme
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society
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irria to control
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chastity - virginity
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legging
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empala
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going into fatting house to become beautiful
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periwinkle soup
house of memoires |
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monkey vs leopards
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navajo girls cermony -the youth lass is sprinked with pollen to signify fruitfulness and dances around the compound 4 itmes , one for infancy, one for youth and one for adulthood and one for marriage
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okrika river, nigeria
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belief that the water spirits are mysterious givers of life. it is believed among the okrika that young girls from romantic attachments to these water spirits.
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to prevent osoklo, water spiritual lovers
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girls stoke back to the village to ensuring both their safety and future fertility. lets covered with brass ring leggin which they must wear for three weeks of total selcusion while they live in the fatting house
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bali master of pieces of the gods
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multi cutural orignins - india china an java
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holy water ( aghama)
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purifiation
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sculpted rice terraces
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steps of gods
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babies as deities until 105 days
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baby touches ground and belong to human
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art
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is humanity
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rice douch as
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artisitc offering for gods
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water temples
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regular irrigation calendar
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sacred masks
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performances of history
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most artistic society yet has no word for art
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paintings as cosomology- the mahabharata epic, 200 years ago
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shadow puppets presents mythology valves good (right) vs evil ( evil)
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trance and dance
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social change
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dancing in hotels, identity gained in response from touriss
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bahamas indonesian
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official langauge - balines religious instruction language
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poster of propaganda for wars
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cross and swastike- christianity over nazism
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big v
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victory in europe
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churchil bull
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germany hitter with german flay - the birds, holly ghosts, opened wings - german vicotry including olympic victories
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hitte with flags wearing warror clothing
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german was against something evil presented power of german
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hitter's patriot like charles
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africans joint wwi and wwii they profuced palm oils and related oil products
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a flag is a pieces of coth with vibrant symbol meaning
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with a flag, one can do anything, even lead people to the promised land- theodore hertzl
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a cadilla is a car but a porsche is an icon
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joseph nevadomsky
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symbols have to sensibilities
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intellectual and emional
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anthropolgists emphasize key and dominant
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benin - when a king died all benin men cut their hair to show obedience and disciplines . pregnant women left city so the king would not take unburning children with him
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Henri mastisse
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i cant make a distinction between life and how i express myself in art
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yoruba
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scarifcation , mark of civilization no bushman
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civilizing the earth
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cutting into the earth for farming
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ilaju-la
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to cut
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abelam of new giviena painting ovals symbols
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"belly of the womb" power of women producing children
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mensturatl blood is
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powerful/harmful
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trobiand island shield
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symbol of women with most prominent symbol of vagina
expression of the power of the female compensation for males is power of politices arabian women wear veil to protect their sexua identity |
