Contents :

Warner Muensterberger : Some Elements of Artistic Creativity Among Primitive Peoples

Anthony F. C. Wallace : A Possible Technique for Recognizing ¨sychological Characteristics of the Ancient Maya from an Analysis of Their Art

David B. Stout : Aesthetics in "Primitive Societies"

Paul S. Wingert : Anatomical Interpretations in African Masks

Edmund R. Leach : A Trobriand Medusa ?

Harold K. Schneider : The Interpretation of Pakot Visual Art

Herbert Barry, III : Relationship Between Child Training and the Pictoral Arts

George Mills : Arts. An Introduction to Qualitative Anthropology

Ronald M. Berndt : Some Methodological Considerations in the Study of Australian Aboriginal Art

Roy Sieber : The Aesthetics of Traditional African Art

Margaret Mead : Work, Leisure, and Creativity

Herschel B. Chipp : Formal and Symbolic Factors in the Art Styles of Primitive Cultures

John L. Fischer : Art Styles as Cultural Cognitive Maps

George Devereux : Art and Mythology : A General Theory

Claude Lévi-Strauss : The Science of the Concrete

Vytautas Kavolis : The Value-Orientations Theory of Artistic Style

Irvin L. Child and Leon Siroto : Bakwele and American Aesthetic Evaluations Compared

Anthony Forge : Art and Environment in the Sepik

Daniel J. Crowley : An African Aesthetic

Michael C. Robbins : Material Culture and Cognition

Nancy D. Munn : Visual Categories. An Approach to the Study of Representation Systems

James W. Fernandez : Principles of Opposition and Vitality in Fang Aesthetics

Robert Farris Thompson : Aesthetics in Traditional Africa

William H. Davenport : Sculpture of the Eastern Solomons