Art as contact with the ancestors, Pauline van der Zee
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Pauline van der Zee (2009) Art as contact with the ancestors. Visual arts of the Kamoro and Asmat of Western Papua ISBN 978 906832 6444 Amsterdam, KIT Publicers, bulletin 389, 96 pag., € 25,00 A recent comparative research focusing on related yet different artistic expressions of the Asmat and Kamoro. The approach emphasizes relationships between arts, rituals and mythology. Combining cultural information embedded in myths and rituals with an invenstigation of various disign elements and comparing Asmat and Kamoro data, results in innovative interpretations resonating art’s ambiguity. - kdj