Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts by William

Description: Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts by William H. Davenport Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Anthropologist William H. Davenport explores Santa Cruz Islands traditional sculpture in this ethnographic study. The book details figurine making, iconography, and social interactions. Davenports records of 55 sculptures and engaging insights into oral myths provide a glimpse into the culture, appealing to anthropologists and art historians. Publisher Description In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies.The body of the book discusses the history of Santa Cruz Island society since the first Europeans came to the area in 1595, the cultural meanings of its most conspicuous features, and descriptions of the main components of worship, the rituals. The book includes discoveries about the making and use of the figurines, as well as the iconography of the pieces. The latter information is derived from general ethnographic data collected in the course of field research between 1958 and 1976 on Santa Cruz Island and the adjacent islands of the Santa Cruz Group, where Davenports many close friends included both his informants in the villages and officers of the British Colonial Service.A dual study of a tradition of so-called tribal art in its context and a study of Santa Cruz Island society, the book includes meticulous descriptions of the sacred objects, currency, dances, and social interactions. Davenports records of 55 specimens of Santa Cruz sculpture from both private collections and museums-initial acquisition, subsequent ownership, and other detailed physical information-constitute the catalogue section of the book.An engaging and previously unrecorded transcription of information distilled from local informants of the oral myths, rituals, and ceremonies reveals how Santa Cruz believers distinguished, celebrated, and communicated with their deities.Davenports own unique photographs-both black and white and color-illustrate rituals on the island and life as it was lived before independence in 1978. His work here is a record of a culture which is barely now either lived or remembered by the descendants of those who created it, and all figural sculpture discovered in the future must be judged against this corpus of authenticated originals.Audiences will include anthropologists interested in the tribal arts of Pacific peoples, libraries with Melanesian collections, art historians, contemporary historians interested in the difference between description and comparison, and the special political and economic situation of colonialism.Content of this books CD-ROM may be found online at this location: Author Biography Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, William H. Davenport earned his B.A. degree in anthropology from the University of Hawaii in 1952, after attending the Art Center School in Los Angeles during 1939-41, and serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He received his Ph.D. degree in ethnography/ethnology from Yale in 1956. He was the author of more than 60 articles in scholarly and popular journals, museum journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias and book chapters. Details ISBN 1931707812 ISBN-13 9781931707817 Title Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts Author William H. Davenport Format Hardcover Year 2005 Pages 248 Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press GE_Item_ID:157820257; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. 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