Douglas M Dalton
Biographic Data
| ID | 198452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas M Dalton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dalton |
| SIGNATURE | DALTON D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Longwood University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Aesthetic of the Sublime
An examination of shell objects and their presentation, exchange, and roles in ritual self-decoration among Papua New Guinea Rawa speakers relates them to a sublime aesthetic combination of pleasure and pain involving an indigenous ethos of pathos and sorrow and a sense of the inadequacy of symbolic shell images to convey the ideal concepts they embody. This sense is exacerbated in a colonial context, and the analysis of the sublime shows shells …
Guardians of the Flutes
The Aesthetic of the Sublime
An examination of shell objects and their presentation, exchange, and roles in ritual self-decoration among Papua New Guinea Rawa speakers relates them to a sublime aesthetic combination of pleasure and pain involving an indigenous ethos of pathos and sorrow and a sense of the inadequacy of symbolic shell images to convey the ideal concepts they embody. This sense is exacerbated in a colonial context, and the analysis of the sublime shows shells …
Guardians of the Flutes
The Aesthetic of the Sublime
An examination of shell objects and their presentation, exchange, and roles in ritual self-decoration among Papua New Guinea Rawa speakers relates them to a sublime aesthetic combination of pleasure and pain involving an indigenous ethos of pathos and sorrow and a sense of the inadequacy of symbolic shell images to convey the ideal concepts they embody. This sense is exacerbated in a colonial context, and the analysis of the sublime shows shells …
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works)