Embedded symmetries, natural and cultural /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Amerind Foundation
Other Authors: Washburn, Dorothy Koster
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
Series:Amerind Foundation New World studies series ; no. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Embedded symmetries / Dorothy K. Washburn
  • Symmetries in development : the eye is quicker than the hand / Diane Humphrey
  • The perception of band patterns : going beyond geometry / Michael Kubovy and Lars Strother
  • Evolutionary developments in the cognition of symmetry / Thomas Wynn
  • The genesis of realistic and patterned representations / Dorothy K. Washburn
  • Symmetry schemes on Paracas Necrópolis textiles / Anne Paul
  • Jazz : an Andean sense of symmetry / Ed Franquemont
  • The ghost in the machine : symmetry and representation in ancient Antillean art / Peter G. Roe
  • Symmetry for itself, for culture, and for practice / F. Allan Hanson
  • Symmetry and semiotics : the case of Fijian barkcloth figuration / Rod Ewins.