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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">tribal art</topic></authority><related type="other"><topic>primitive art</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>indigenous art</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>art genres</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>art, tribal</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>ethnographic art</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>tribal arts</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Refers to the art and certain artifacts of small-scale societies, even when the societies are not strictly speaking tribal in social structure. The rubric is typically applied to works of Native Americans, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa. The characteristics that define creators of tribal art are 1. isolation, politically and economically, from advanced civilizations; 2. oral traditions in rather than literacy; 3. small, independent population groupings, usually in villages of no more than a few hundred inhabitants who live a life of face-to-face social interaction and informal social control; 4. a low level of labor and craft specialization; 5. subsistence by hunting, fishing, and gathering and/or small-scale agriculture; 6. little technology beyond hand tools, often of stone rather than metal; and 7. slow rates of cultural change prior to European contact. ]]></note></mads>