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ethnoaesthetics

ethnoaesthetics noun: the aesthetics of a particular culture.

Noun

ethnoaesthetics (uncountable)

  1. the aesthetics of a particular culture.
    • During 1986–1987 in Ecuador we had both focused especially on mythohistory and ethnoaesthetics, seeking ways to present the complexities of indigenous thought and imagery in Spanish and English prose to communicate to broad audiences.2011, Norman E. Whitten, Dorothea S. Whitten, Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, preface
    • The significance of the Kamba enterprise resides in the emergence of an “ethnoaesthetics of the moment" that coincides with the growth of stylistic repertoires and techniques.2013, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 230

Origin of ethnoaesthetics

From ethno- + aesthetics.

Questions about ethnoaesthetics

What does ethnoaesthetics mean?
Ethnoaesthetics means the aesthetics of a particular culture.
What part of speech is ethnoaesthetics?
Ethnoaesthetics is a noun.

Words near ethnoaesthetics in the dictionary

  1. ethno-neutral
  2. ethno-organology
  3. ethno-state
  4. ethno-states
  5. ethnoaesthetic
  6. ethnoaesthetics
  7. ethnoanthropological
  8. ethnoanthropology
  9. ethnoarchaeological
  10. ethnoarchaeologically
  11. ethnoarchaeologist

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