The Ancestress Hypothesis: Visual Art as Adaption

by Kathryn Coe

Book Overview

In our society it has long been believed that art serves very little social purpose. Evolutionary anthropologists, however, are examining a potential role for art in human evolution. Kathryn Coe looks to the visual arts of traditional societies for clues. Because they are passed down from previous generations, traditional art forms such as body decoration, funeral ornaments, and ancestral paintings offer ways to promote social relationships among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531314
• ISBN13: 9780813531311
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.8"