Patterns That Connect : Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art

Schuster, Carl; Edmund Carpenter

ISBN 10: 0810963264 / ISBN 13: 9780810963269

Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 1996

About this Item

313 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. Mild shelfwear and associated faint rubbing to the jacket. Both are minimal. Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. 1,023 black and white illustrations (predominantly line drawings) throughout. First edition. Notes and Index.

Seller Inventory # 029542

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patterns That Connect : Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810963264
• ISBN 13: 9780810963269
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology
  • Art History

About this title

Synopsis

The American art historian, Carl Schuster (1904-1969), discovered a set of patterns designed by ancient peoples to illustrate their ideas about kinship. They tattooed and painted such "statements" on their bodies and clothing, and carved them on tools, game boards, pots, ceremonial objects, coins and other items, and carried these with them wherever they went. Through broad comparative study, Schuster decoded this iconography, which lasted over 10,000 years, crossed continents, and outlived most of the cultures that sheltered it. Having spent more than three decades gathering evidence for his study, Schuster delayed publication while he searched for more. This book, by his colleague Edmund Carpenter, distils his research to a single volume.

About the Author

Edmund Carpenter (b.1922) taught anthropology at the univeristy of Toronto, California, & Harvard.