concepts of perception, visual practice, and pattern art among the cashinahua indians (peruvian...
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This paper attempts to demonstrate that consistent regard for culturally specific concepts of perception and analysis of native visual practice open new possibilities for the interpretation of Amazon Indian pattern art. For the ornamentalistics theory a new paradigm results from this, with emphasis on the processuality and perfor- mativity of the construction of meaning instead of the previous focus on structure and system, the basis for the search for iconographic traces of semantic content.