Symmetry comes of age : the role of pattern in culture / edited by Dorothy K. Washburn and Donald W. Crowe

Published:: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
Copyright Date:: ©2004
Physical Description:: xxx, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Additional Creators:: Washburn, Dorothy Koster and Crowe, Donald W. (Donald Warren), 1927-

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Contents:

Introduction : The role of pattern in culture / Dorothy K. Washburn and Donald W. Crowe -- Introduction to the plane symmetries / Donald W. Crowe -- Periodic ornamentation of the fabric plane : lessons from Peruvian fabrics / Branko Grünbaum -- Creating symmetry on the loom / Carrie Brezine -- Symmetries on mats woven by Yombe women from the lower Congo : on the interplay between cultural values and mathematical-technical possibilities / Paulus Gerdes -- Continuity and change in Zulu beadwork conventions : the interaction of color and pattern / Frank Jolles -- Motion pictures : symmtery as animator, classifier, and syntax in the Nasca embroideries of Peru / Mary Frame -- Tanka, Chongo, Kutij : structure of the world through cloth / E.M. Franquemont and C.R. Franquemont -- Symmetry analysis of Ica Valley ceramics : insights into Ica-Inca interactions / Dorothy K. Washburn -- At play in the fields of symmetry : design structure and shamanic therapy in the upper Amazon / Peter G. Roe -- Cognitive structures and body metaphors in the aesthetic and everyday discourse of Turkish-Yörük weavers / Patricia Daugherty.

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0295983663 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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