Meanings
- uncountablethe aesthetics of a particular culture.
In the field of material culture and folklore, ethnoaesthetics or applied aesthetics is also a powerful tool to evaluate cultural expressions such as performance.
2017, Kevin Landis, Suzanne Macaulay, Cultural Performance: Ethnographic Approaches to Performance Studies, Macmillan International Higher Education, →ISBN, page 1952 more examples
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, prefaceThe 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
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