Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts / / William H. Davenport.
In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies.The body o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 55 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1. The Collectors
- 2. Iconography and Style
- 3. Worship and Ritual
- 4. The Santa Cruz Island World View: Cultural Assumptions and Mythology
- 5. Myths of the Santa Cruz Island Dukna
- Notes
- A Catalogue of Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture
- References
- Index
- Author Note