1.1. Papua new genua: Symbolism of Display at Festivals Bright displays-friendship and fertility Dark displays-aggression and strength. Aesthetic judgement and social purpose
1.2. Types of parades:Bearing the Retreat Edinburgh Tattoo Trooping the colour Elaborate formations Honor the monarch's birthday The parade functions to display ,Power,Tradition,solidarity
1.3. Shadow puppets are silhouettes on a cloth screen Intricately cut and painted.Hindu epics Introduced to Java by India
2. Archaeology
2.1. Sacred Geography-animated landscape of mountains and water deities that utilize themes of agriculture and warfare using animals and figures in ceremonial performances
2.2. Scenes-certain human and other figures and objects as motif that recurred in certain combinations.
2.3. Sacrificial Ceremony Motif based on common sense recognition. Warrior with captive being tortured and killed. Images of slit throats and blood drinking.
2.4. sacred geography
3. Form
3.1. Formalism- identify principles of composition, such as organic unity among elements, balanced sense of symmetry, and recurring shapes.
3.2. Males ▪Symbolic “art” ▪Female ▪Formal “art”
3.3. Structuralist-deep inherit universal patterns of the human mind that culture is built on.
4. Meaning
4.1. Denotative- denoting the literal and explicit meaning. obvious level of description connotative- informed by the cultural and historical context Of other symbolic meaning
4.2. Heraldry-tradition of graphic emblems that represent the histories and prerogatives of high-status individuals, families, and corporate bodies in Europe
4.3. Benin artifacts was known to Europeans after royal palace was plundered in 1897 some others “purchased”
4.4. Creatures in Benin Artifacts symbolic of power and hierarchy of power over the realms they
5. work of art
5.1. Art has is an ambiguous category in Western culture. ▪Does not function for something specific. ▪Sub-system of culture.
5.2. Pattern is the regularity that people perceive that enable them to predict and understand world of experience.
5.3. Nilotic people changed the cattle to take on the qualities they admired
5.4. Art is a Western construct and tradition
5.5. Kula Exchange ▪Men visited neighboring islands to exchange shell bead necklace for cone shell arm-rings ▪Circuit of exchange linking the islands together. ▪Trobriand Islands Kula Rings
