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"I am full of admiration for PATTERNS THAT CONNECT. Just to scan the illustrations and to access them in relation to their names and places is very exciting. Merely their juxtaposition poses such profound questions that it is hard to understand an anthropology that does not comfront them." Rodney Needham, All Souls College, Oxford. PATTERNS THAT CONNECT 
This profusely illustrated work reviews similar artistic designs among ancient and tribal groups – making readers aware of the essential unity of human cultures. The authors present a grammar of design useful in analyzing artworks that might seem strange to modern viewers. A lifetime achievement of art historian, Carl Schuster, abetted by world anthropologist, Edmund Carpenter, Patterns that Connect is a condensed version of the monumental work, Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art (12 books in 3 volumes). "If social anthropologists were half as interested in material culture as they ought to be, they would probably have paid more attention to Carl Schuster's fascinating survey." Claude Levi-Strauss, de l'Academie francaise, Paris. "I find myself lamenting the fact that Schuster is no longer alive. A strange sentiment, for I never mind learning that Einstein is dead or Humboldt or Paracelsus. But with this man there is so much I would like to discuss." Leo Steinberg, Benjamin Franlkin Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 
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