Description
Book SynopsisA companion volume to "Symmetries of Culture", this book applies the method of symmetry analysis to actual case studies from cultures around the world. It explores how cultural information is embedded in the symmetrical structure of pattern. It is intended as a reference for anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, and mathematicians.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Role of Pattern in Culture by Dorothy K. Washburn and Donald W. Crowe
1. Introduction to the Plane Symmetries by Donald W. Crowe
2. Periodic Ornamentation of the Fabric Plane: Lessons from Peruvian Fabrics by Branko Grunbaum
3. Creating Symmetry on the Loom by Carrie Brezine
4. Symmetries on Mats Woven by Yombe Women from the Lower Congo: On the Interplay between Cultural Values and Mathematical-Technical Possibilities by Paulus Gerdes
5. Continuity and Change in Zulu Beadwork Conventions: The Interaction of Color and Pattern by Frank Jolles
6. Motion Pictures: Symmetry as Animator, Classifier, and Syntax in the Nasca Embroideries of Peru by Mary Frame
7. Tanka, Chongo, Kutij: Structure of the World through Cloth by E. M. Franquemont and C. R. Franquemont
8. Symmetry Analysis of Ica Valley Ceramics: Insights into Ica-Inca Interactions by Dorothy K. Washburn
9. At Play in the Fields of Symmetry: Design Structure and Shamanic Therapy in the Upper Amazon by Peter G. Roe
10. Cognitive Structures and Body Metaphors in the Aesthetic and Everyday Discourse of Turkish-Yoruk Weavers by Patricia Daugherty
Contributors
Index
