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2. Vol. 1, Book 2 - Genealogical Patterns: Meanders, Ramiforms & DisksIn Genealogical Patterns: Meanders, Ramiforms & Disks, Carpenter draws connections between horizontal meanders and vertical bands in visual pattern-making, and interprets them as patterns of genealogical descent. This book introduces the concepts of ramiforms, vertical and horizontal meanders, vertical and horizontal bands and compartmental patterns. It traces similarities o...

6. Vol. 2, Book 2 - Family Tree: Robes, Heraldry & Hourglass MotifsIn Family Tree: Robes, Heraldry & Hourglass Motifs, Carpenter argues that the earliest manifestations of visual art are to be found on the human body, as skin decorations and on worn garments. He looks to surviving examples of decorated pelts, robes and bags, to explore their motifs of genealogical patterns. By looking at examples surviving into modern times, Carpenter argues t...

1. Vol. 1, Book 1 - Genealogical Patterns: Form & MeaningThe first book of this three-volume, twelve-book series. Genealogical Patterns: Form & Meaning introduces the work of anthropologist Carl Schuster and his comparative method, as edited and written by Edmund Carpenter. This first book looks into the arts of women, primarily weaving, as passed down from mother to daughter from the Paleolithic period to modern times, and examines the embedd...

5. Vol. 2, Book 1 - Family Tree: Stacked Ancestors, Y-Posts & Heavenly LaddersFamily Tree: Stacked Ancestors, Y-Posts & Heavenly Ladders is the first book of five in Volume Two. This series reorganizes, under new headings, the data outlined in Volume One. Carpenter's presentation deals with the origin of the iconography, stressing design as a cultural document, and argues in favor of Schuster's emphasis on ephemeral materials over archeologica...

8. Vol. 2, Book 4 - Family Tree: Pebbles from North & South AmericaIn Family Tree: Pebbles from North & South America, Carpenter looks more closely at the engraved pebbles and stele introduced earlier, closely analyzing the record of engraved stones across the Americas. Carl Schuster photographed incised stones on five continents, noting how body-designs, garment-designs & pebble-designs often employed the same tools & techniques. Carpenter ar...

4. Vol. 1, Book 4 - Genealogical Patterns: Animal Style & Joint-marksGenealogical Patterns: Animal Style & Joint-marks is the fourth and final book of Volume One. Carpenter opens the book with Appendix One: an analyses of detailed examples of circular joint-mark patterns in the art of Old Bering Sea arctic, ancient Siberian and Eurasian forms. Carpenter adds Appendix Two, an extensive chapter on the Carl Schuster archives in Basel, Switzerland...

3. Vol. 1, Book 3 - Genealogical Patterns: The Human Body as Metaphor of SocietyBook three, Genealogical Patterns: The Human Body as Metaphor of Society, presents how genealogical patterns are drawn in clusters with a single head at the top to represent an entire tribe, and the human body is conceived as a metaphor for the society. Various examples of creation myths where the body of the first ancestor or god is quartered to create the tribe a...

12. Vol. 3, Book 3 - Rebirth: The World Turned Upside DownThe final book of the three volumes, Rebirth: The World Turned Upside Down deals with the mythic notion of inversion as a prelude to rebirth. This book includes perhaps the most subtle and complex arguments of the series, and synthesizes Carpenter's thoughts on the symbolism inherent in anthropomorphic compositions examined in the series. As with the other volumes, the initial sources a...

11. Vol. 3, Book 2 - Rebirth: The Labyrinth & Other Paths to Other WorldsContinuing the thread explored in Cosmic Games, Book Two, Rebirth: The Labyrinth & Other Paths to Other Worlds, is an overview Carl Schuster's investigations of the labyrinth. Carpenter opens by providing instructions on how to draw a labyrinth, noting that the compositional devices are basically universal throughout the world. Distinctions and identifications of differen...

10. Vol. 3, Book 1 - Rebirth: Cosmic GamesAs Volumes One and Two establish the premise and breadth of genealogical pattern making, Volume Three provides examples of the complex mythological narratives employed through such designs. Each book examines different categories of these patterns. Book One, Rebirth: Cosmic Games, is Carpenter's review of a variety of the performative aspects of tribal consciousness. He examines continuous-line drawing...

9. Vol. 2, Book 5 - Family Tree: Pebbles from Eurasia, Africa, Oceania & AustraliaFamily Tree: Pebbles from Eurasia, Africa, Oceania & Australia is the fifth and final book of Volume Two, and the ninth in the series. It completes the survey of incised pebbles begun in Book Four. It examines links between Old World and New World traditions, extending the survey into paleolithic evidence throughout Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Pacific isla...

7. Vol. 2, Book 3 - Family Tree: Robes, Megaliths & Compartmented DesignsThe seventh book in the series, Family Tree: Robes, Megaliths & Compartmented Designs, continues the discussion on robes begun in the preceding volume, focusing largely upon compartmented designs.The primary source is an unpublished manuscript written by Carl Schuster in 1958, which Carpenter expands into other chapters, to include additional cultures and epochs. Examples...