Art As Technology: The Arts of Africa, Oceania, Native America, and Southern California. by Rubin, Arnold and Zena Pearlstone - 1989.

Beverly Hills, CA: Hillcrest Press, 1989. Presumed First Glossy Pictorial Wraps AS NEW in WRAPS 4to (7-1/2 x 10), 184 pp including Index, Bibliography and Appendix Essay on Ritual Healing -- "The Return of Ritual" by Ted Kapchuk. Book is Unmarked, apparently Unread, and AS NEW in glossy pictorial wraps -- collectible and/or gift-giving condition. .An extraordinary work by Arnold Rubin, edited by Ms Pearlstone after his death, and including essays by Raymond A. Silverman (Art/Politics of the Asante) and Elisabeth L. Cameron (Senufo Art). This book examines aspects of art and culture, focusing on Environmental and Cultural Factors, Utilitarians and Transactional Functions, Itinerant Hunters and Food Gatherers (Australian Aborigines) Herders (Fulani), Sedentary Hunters and Food Gatherers (Asmat), Non-centralized and Centralized Sedentary Cultivators (Pueblo, Senufo) (Maya, Maori, Asante), Confluenceon the North American Plains, the situation of Traditional Societies in the Modern World, and Convergence -- Contemporary Western Art. A book designed to bring many vaguely understood aspects of tribal and traditional aspects of art into very clear and understandable focus. (h)