HART337 Folk Art,Folk Craft 3cr

This course introduces major analytic approaches and issues in the study of traditional expressive
behavior that employs artifacts. The class explores how cultural groups use material
expression to articulate worldview, values, and social relations, and considers such diverse
forms of folk art as the scrimshaw carved by whalers, gravestones in Colonial New England,
Hmong storycloths, Hopi Katsina, graffiti around the world, and Samoan tattooing.

Prerequisites: HART-100

Lecture

Fall and Spring