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The Chaco Experience : Landscape And Ideology At The Center Place

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Ruth M. Van DykePublication Details
Book1st edSchool for Advanced Research Press2008Description
In a remote canyon in northwest New Mexico, thousand-year-old sandstone walls waver in the sunlight, stretching like ancient vertebrae against a turquoise sky. Chaco Canyon draws its power not only from the ancient architecture sheltering beneath its walls, but from the ever-changing light and the far-flung vistas of the Colorado Plateau. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E99.C37 V35 2008 AVAILABLE
The Heart In The Age Of Shakespeare

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William W. E. SlightsPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2008Description
When Hamlet says he ‘wears’ Horatio in his ‘heart of hearts’, he is claiming that the strongest bonds between people are forged, stored, and understood in the heart. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR428.H43 S55 2008 AVAILABLE
The Human Animal In Western Art And Science

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Martin KempPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2007Links
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From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children?s stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. Like a kaleidoscope, Kemp uses these stories to refract, reconfigure, and echo the essential truth that the way we think about animals inevitably inflects how we think about people, and vice versa. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N7660 .K37 2007 AVAILABLE
Here Be Dragons : A Fantastic Bestiary

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Ariane Delacampagne and Christian DelacampagnePublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2003Links
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Sphinxes, hydras, chimeras, dragons, unicorns, griffins, sirens, and centaurs–fantastic animals can be found in works from Greek vases to paintings by Bosch, Goya, and Picasso, from folk art to comic strips, advertising, and Hollywood movies. In the first book to explore this subject with such cross-cultural and chronological range, the Delacampagnes identify five basic structures (unicorn, human-headed animal, animal-headed human, winged quadruped, and dragon) whose stories they relate from prehistory to the present day. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) N7745.A5 D4313 2003 AVAILABLE
Wrapped In Pride : Ghanaian Kente And African American Identity

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Doran H. Ross ; with contributions by Agbenyega Adedze … [et al.]Publication Details
BookUCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History1998Description
Originating among the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, this brilliantly colored and intricately patterned strip-woven cloth was traditionally associated with royalty. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NK8989.6.G5 R67 1998 AVAILABLE
Spirits Speak : A Celebration Of African Masks

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Peter Stepan ; catalogue entries by Iris Hahner ; [translated from the German by John W. Gabriel]Publication Details
BookPrestel2005Description
Images of outstanding African masks from the world?s leading museums and private collections reveal the splendor and majesty of these fascinating masterpieces. A beautifully produced full-color foldout map places each mask in its original site, which together with the stunning reproductions, field photographs, and text, creates a magnificent celebration of African artistry and culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NB1098 .S65 2005 AVAILABLE
Tattoo : Bodies, Art, And Exchange In The Pacific And The West

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edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen DouglasPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2005Links
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by Europeans, track the history of the tattooing of Europeans visiting the region, and look at how Pacific tattooing was absorbed, revalued, and often suppressed by agents of European colonization. They consider how European art has incorporated tattooing, and they explore contemporary manifestations of Pacific tattoo art, paying particular attention to the different trajectories of Samoan, Tahitian, and Maori tattooing and to the meaning of present-day appropriations of tribal tattoos. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN419.3 .T37 2005 DUE 12-09-09
Tattoo : An Anthropology

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Makiko KuwaharaPublication Details
BookEnglish edBerg2005Links
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In the 1830s, missionaries in French Polynesia sought to suppress the traditional art of tattooing because they believed it to be a barbaric practice. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN670 .K88 2005 DUE 12-09-09
Rhetoric Of Sensibility In Eighteenth-century Culture

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Paul GoringPublication Details
BookCambridge Univ Press2005Description
Paul Goring demonstrates how eighteenth-century writers and performers, including Samuel Richardson, David Garrick and Laurence Sterne, were involved in the construction of innovative bourgeois ideals of sentimental eloquence in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR448.B63 G67 2005 AVAILABLE
The Continuum Encyclopedia Of Animal Symbolism In Art

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Hope B. Werness ; line drawings by Joanne H. Benedict and Hope B. Werness ; additional drawings by Tiffany Ramsay-Lozano and Scott ThomasPublication Details
BookContinuum2004Description
The famous animal tale of the six blind men and the elephant, in which each of the blind men describes the elephant differently, depending on the part of the creature touched, has been interpreted in ways nearly as varied as the blind men’s descriptions. Other broader entries address the significance of animals in their own environements (e.g., architecture of animals, tools used by animals), and still others deal with animals in the human sphere (e.g., pet animals, zoo). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) GR705 .W47 2004 AVAILABLE
The Monstrous Middle Ages

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edited by Bettina Bildhauer and Robert MillsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Toronto Press2003Description
The Monstrous Middle Ages looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writings and mystical texts to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR275.M625 M66 2003 AVAILABLE
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