Chapters:
The wealth of the Dark Continent: Representations of African objects in the illustrations of European literature by Leila Koivunen
Decorated bodies as icons of tradition and primitivism: Papua New Guinea Highlands adornment and its representations by Berit Nordman
From ritual to performance art: South Indian powder painting ritual and performance art as performances
Space as microcosm: Four traditional Brahmin houses in North-Malabar, South India by Henri Schildt
Thousands of years of memory in a clay pot: A ceramics village in Sistan-Baluchistan, Iran by Elina Sorainen
The representations of Dionysos in Egyptian textiles since late antiquity by Virpa Huhtala
Looking at Chinese landscape painting: traditions of spatial presentation by Minna Törmä
Japan and eros: Axel Gallén's icons of youth by Anna Kortelainen
Skin-deep beauties: Race, gender and aesthetics by Harri Kalha
What to remember, or not to remember: Of scientific exhibitions and other cultural displays by Anne Aurasmaa
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- PublisherTaidehistorian Seura
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 9519790047
- ISBN 13 9789519790046
- BindingPaperback