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The parameters of human expression seem endless—art, music, and dance, for example, take many forms and are integrated into many aspects of societies. Keeping with this book's theme of "less can be more," this chapter only samples the variety of human expression. Upper Paleolithic cave art was chosen to again emphasize the holistic nature of anthropology. Carver's art as a status mechanism is profiled for the Yurok, Karuk, Hupa, and Tolowa of the Klamath River region of northwestern California. Today carving is being reborn as art for its own sake among contemporary native carvers and also among a wide audience of art collectors. The same is true of the colorful molas of the San Blas peoples of Panama, and this textile art is also profiled. Body art and its functions and ethnomusicology are briefly introduced.








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