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I read for the first time in months two days ago. It was two really interesting essays about art in primative societies. The first essay was about the purpose and view of art in particular African tribes. The second was about "defamiliarization" in various tribes across the world. Basically, the study found that tribes that lived in circular dwellings tended to prefer art with rectangular shapes, and that the more "rounded" a tribe's dwellings, the more "rectangular" their art preferances tended to be, and vice versa.