Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Hardcover

by Ross Bowden (Author)

This book is a study of the art of the Kwoma of the Sepik River region of New Guinea and how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon, including its origins in the spirit world.

Author Biography

Ross Bowden is an Australian cultural anthropologist whose main interests are in the art, history and social organization of societies in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea.