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What Is Art For?

By Ellen Dissanayake
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Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called art, and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species four-million-year evolutionary history.

This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary signi…

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