Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa
Date:
1999
Notes:
Ill.
Recursion can be found in almost every corner of African material culture and design, from construction techniques to aesthetic design, and in cultural representations from kinship to cosmology. Three types of recursion are discussed: cascade, iteration, and self-reference.
Topic:
Decoration and ornament, Dogon--Symbolic aspects Search this
