Lines That Connect : : Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific / / Graeme Were.

Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, Lines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. Pattern is constantly in a state of moti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 44 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. Loci: Lines That Connect
  • Two. Congruence: Pattern as the Art of Connecting
  • Three. Asymmetries: Pattern, Performance, and Mission Christianity
  • Four. Symmetries: Pattern, Belief, and the Baha'i Faith
  • Five. Repetition: The Logic of Pattern
  • Six. Tangents: Pattern as the Fabric of Thought
  • Seven. Trajectories: Pattern in Transition
  • Eight. On the Mathematical Mind
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index