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Ellen Dissanayake

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#1149

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#434

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Cultural Anthropology

#69

World Rank

#89

Historical Rank

#39

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Ellen Dissanayake's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Washington
Masters Anthropology University of Washington
Bachelors Anthropology University of Washington

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According to Wikipedia, Ellen Dissanayake , an American author and scholar focusing on "the anthropological exploration of art and culture". She lives in Seattle, Washington, and is affiliated with the University of Washington.

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Ellen Dissanayake's Published Works

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Published Works

Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (2000) (425)
Antecedents of the temporal arts in early mother–infant interaction. (2000) (368)
Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (1992) (353)
What Is Art For (1990) (258)
If music is the food of love, what about survival and reproductive success? (2008) (116)
"The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature" (2011) (103)
The poetics of babytalk (2003) (92)
The Artification Hypothesis and Its Relevance to Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Neuroaesthetics (2009) (60)
THE ARTS AFTER DARWIN: DOES ART HAVE AN ORIGIN AND ADAPTIVE FUNCTION? (2008) (55)
Becoming Homo Aestheticus : Sources of Aesthetic Imagination in Mother-Infant Interactions (2001) (50)
Chapter 2 Root , leaf , blossom , or bole : Concerning the origin and adaptive function of music (2014) (45)
The Arts are More than Aesthetics: Neuroaesthetics as Narrow Aesthetics (2018) (39)
Aesthetic Experience and Human Evolution (1982) (38)
An Ethological View of Music and its Relevance to Music Therapy (2001) (34)
The Core of Art—Making Special (2003) (30)
What Art Is and What Art Does: An Overview of Contemporary Evolutionary Hypotheses (2019) (27)
Art as a Human Behavior: Toward an Ethological View of Art (1980) (26)
A Hypothesis of the Evolution of Art from Play (1974) (25)
Prelinguistic and Preliterate Substrates of Poetic Narrative (2011) (24)
The earliest narratives were musical (2012) (23)
Art for Life's Sake (1992) (22)
Aesthetic Incunabula (2001) (19)
Bodies swayed to music : The temporal arts as integral to ceremonial ritual (2014) (19)
From Play and Ritualisation to Ritual and Its Arts: Sources of Upper Pleistocene Ritual Practices in Lower Middle Pleistocene Ritualised and Play Behaviours in Ancestral Hominins (2017) (18)
An Ethological View of Ritual and Art in Human Evolutionary History (1979) (17)
In the Beginning: Pleistocene and Infant Aesthetics and 21st-century Education in the Arts (2007) (15)
Komar and Melamid Discover Pleistocene Taste (1998) (14)
Retrospective on Homo Aestheticus (2003) (13)
“Aesthetic Primitives”: Fundamental Biological Elements of a Naturalistic Aesthetics (2015) (13)
Motherese is but one part of a ritualized, multimodal, temporally organized, affiliative interaction (2004) (12)
Birth of the arts. (2001) (10)
Chimera, spandrel, or adaptation (1995) (10)
Does Art have Selective Value? (1984) (9)
The Synthesis of the Arts: From Ceremonial Ritual to “Total Work of Art” (2018) (9)
IN THE BEGINNING: PLEISTOCENE AND INFANT AESTHETICS AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY EDUCATION IN THE ARTS (2007) (8)
A Bona Fide Ethological View of Art : The Artification Hypothesis (2013) (8)
Darwin meets literary theory (1996) (6)
Ethology, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Play: Insights into the Evolutionary Origin of the Arts. (2017) (6)
Roots and Route of the Artification Hypothesis (2017) (6)
Birth of the Arts: What lies behind the human urge to elaborate, to embellish, to make the ordinary extraordinary?. (2001) (5)
Doing Without the Ideology of Art (2011) (5)
The deep structure of Pleistocene rock art: the "artification hypothesis" (2010) (5)
1994 Keynote Address Reflecting on the Past: Implications of Prehistory and Infancy for Art Therapy (1995) (4)
Genesis and development of "Making Special":: Is the concept relevant to aesthetic philosophy? (2013) (4)
Book Review: The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body (2005) (3)
Fons et Origo:A Darwinian View of Selfobject Theory and the Arts (2006) (3)
4. The Universality of the Arts in Human Life (2020) (3)
Play as Exploratory Learning: Studies of Curiosity Behavior ed. by Mary Reilly (review) (2017) (2)
Art in Primitive Societies (1980) (1)
Mark-Making as a Human Behavior (2016) (1)
Krakow Book Forum: Stephen Davies’s The Artful Species (2014) (1)
Art, Life, and Human Nature* (0)
Response to the ESIC Questionnaire (2017) (0)
Beyond Words: Can Literary Darwinism Address the Unsaid and Inexpressible in Literary Creation and Response? (2008) (0)
Structure and Functions of Fantasy by Eric Klinger (review) (2017) (0)
Two fateful happenings led me to Colwyn Trevarthen (2019) (0)
Evolution of Art from Play (Continued) (1975) (0)
Influence in Art and Literature by Göran Hermerén (review) (1977) (0)
Cultural Policy in Sri Lanka by H. H. Bandara (review) (2017) (0)
Denis Dutton: Appreciation of the Man and Discussion of the Work (2014) (0)
Van Schaik, Carel, and Kai Michel. 2016. The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible. (2017) (0)
The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner (review) (2017) (0)
Modern Art and the Modern Mind by J. P. Hodin (review) (2017) (0)
The Psychology of Play by Susanna Millar (review) (1977) (0)
Review of The world in six songs: How the musical brain created human nature by Daniel J. Levitin. (2011) (0)
RAR debate: The parasitic nature of 'art': response to Varella et al. and associated commentaries (2012) (0)
'Parasitic' Is a Lousy Way to Describe the Active Nature of Art (2012) (0)
Book Review: Van Schaik, Carel, and Kai Michel. 2016. The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible. (2017) (0)
Ancestral human mother–infant interaction was an adaptation that gave rise to music and dance (2021) (0)
The Geometric Enigma. A Book Symposium (2019) (0)
Odilon Redon ed. by Carolyn Keay (review) (2017) (0)

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