Cultural Ecology of Folk Art

Author: Tang Jialu
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book conducts a comprehensive, holistic, and systematic study of folk art and its cultural ecology based on theories and methods from cultural studies, folklore, art studies, and particularly cultural ecology. It analyzes the natural ecological concepts in the creation of folk art and the development and utilization of natural ecology in folk creative arts. Additionally, it explores the relationship between folk art as a form of life and artistic expression and the lives of the people, the cultural and temporal existence of folk art, as well as its spiritual cultural forms such as belief concepts, ethical emotions, and the unity of truth, goodness, and beauty. Through these discussions, it relatively comprehensively reveals the cultural ecological foundation of folk art and its characteristics as both content and carrier of folk culture.