Sign on the wall of El Santuario de Chimayo, New Mexico T his place feels old beyond human recollection. The carvings and paintings were surely done by human hands, but no one remembers whose hands those were. The work is striking, especially in the apse behind the altar. There, the colors of surrounding hills have been transferred onto nearly luminous wooden reredos full of Catholic symbolism....

welcome, and medical historians will have cause to be grateful for this worthy legacy from Prof. Merke, who died on 6 June 1975. The subject is pursued from the Ice Age through the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, and includes quotations from the many original texts of Ancient Egyptian, Ethiopian, Grecian, Roman, and Arabian authors. The well-documented works of medical and lay perso...

ion over naturalistic description, representing rather than depicting his subjects. This element of abstraction in African art (often seen in traditional masks or wood, ivory, stone, and other carvings), as well as reliance on bold dramatic color, was extremely influential in the development of modern art, inspiring such masters as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Amadeo Modigliani (4). Tingat...

The aim of this article is to present a short outline of early Indian mathematics. I mean to summarize the results and contributions of Indian mathematics which were made in the period from the first civilization in Indian subcontinent to the 5 century AD when classical era of Indian mathematics began. Indus valley civilization The first use of mathematics in the Indian subcontinent was in the ...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan berbagai aspek tentang perempuan pengukir kayu tradisional Toraja yang bermukim di Kete’Kesu. tergolong penelitian kualitatif dilaksanakan lapangan, yakni Kete’Kesu, Utara. Sumber data adalah: (1) Kete’Kesu berjumlah 33 orang; (2) tokoh dan warga masyarakat Kete’ Kesu 12 (3) artefak berupa ukiran dihasilkan oleh para tersebut. Teknik pengumpulan di...

The hegemony of positivist thinking has shown text. They are still considered as illustrations, literalsome signs of decline in the psychological sciences ly. However, Massironi’s ‘The psychology of in recent times. Lakoff’s (1986) critique of objectivgraphic images’ is an open invitation to study ist categories and Edelman’s (1992) emphatic apgraphic images on its own terms and not as an prais...

The Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project (NADRAP), a three year English Heritage funded project formally completed in July 2008, set out to pilot a meth­ odology for creating an index of around 1,500 known rock art panels located across two counties of the north-east of England. Principally using around 60 volunteers recruited from the local community, this would provide a georeferenced d...

The United Nations’ World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) states that “it is necessary to respect the host community’s socio-cultural authenticity and protect cultural heritage traditional values” facilitate sustainable tourism development. Sustainable Indicators (STI:2004) show development promotes economic, social, environmental, sustainability. Therefore, it essential understand resident situat...

This study uses an inquisitive semantic approach as its main analysis. The aim of the research is to find and reasons for using a motif so that it chosen one carvings in traditional house Minang people cultural identity tribe. data sources are form words sentences obtained through field studies interviews with informants age limit 40-60 years who native tribes. Data collection techniques this u...

A Maya Universe in Stone focuses on Laxtunich Lintel 1, an ancient relief sculpture. Such intensive examinations of singular works remain rare publications related to the Americas, yet objects as complex this lintel, with layered iconographic and hieroglyphic content a rich social life, warrant thorough exposition. The authors convincingly argue that sculpture three additional lintel reliefs we...