Notes on the cognitive texture of an oral mind : Kitawa, a Melanesian culture

著者

• Scoditti, Giancarlo M. G.

書誌事項

Notes on the cognitive texture of an oral mind : Kitawa, a Melanesian culture

Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti

Sean Kingston Pub., 2012

注記

Bibliography: p. [289]-298

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book marks the culmination of Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti's renowned series of publications on the cultural production of the northern Massim island of Kitawa, Papua New Guinea. It explores how the Nowau 'creators of images' conceive of the way their artistic compositions come about - sketching Kitawan cognitive philosophy and aesthetic practice. Describing how for them images grow like the loops of the Nautilus shell - one of nature's prominant demonstrations of the logarithmic spiral and the golden section - Scoditti's analysis of Kitawan cognitive and artistic principles resonates with Levi-Strauss's work on myth and Kant's notion of the mental schema, and makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the 'oral mind'.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB15032792
• ISBN:
  • 9781907774089
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Wantage [England]
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 307 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm