MASSIM
Subtitle: Art of the Massim Area, New Guinea
Author: D. NEWTON
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1975. Stapled,, in-4, 21.5 x 28 cm, ISBN 0-912294-44-2
Content: 48 percent, 76 ill.. b / w, 3 drawings, 3 maps, biblio.
Additional information: limited release. Work exhausted and looking for his good comprehensive and thematic study on Massim Art in New Guinea
State of the work: Very good condition
Description
“Massim” – its origin and its people, the importance of its influence on the distribution of its geographical extent and its trade routes whose trade who had diagnostic function of the institution of culture have aroused intense attention from anthropologists for complex business relationships called “Kula”. The “Kula” can be considered as the support for this activity or as an excuse exists for him, while the “Kula” in itself was not a purely commercial transaction. The Art of Massim region in New Guinea, art and the supernatural, art and history. The distribution of the canoe prow types in New Guinea and Melanesia in the western and eastern Melanesia and Polynesia.
Additional information
| Weight | 260 g |
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| Dimensions | 21.5 × 28 cm |
