意指小規模社會的藝術和特定的手工藝品，即便其社會結構並非完全屬於部落型態。此詞彙通常是指美洲、大洋洲以及非洲的亞撒哈拉沙漠區的工藝作品。明確的部落藝術創作者的特徵為：（一）政治、經濟上遠離先進的文明；（二）口耳相傳，而非文字書寫的傳統；（三）小型、獨立的人口群聚，通常是僅有幾百位居民的村莊，其生活方式為面對面的社會互動和非正式的社會控制；（四）低階的勞動和工藝專業化；（五）以狩獵、捕魚及採集和/或小規模的農業維生；（六）除了手持式工具外幾乎沒有其他科技，通常是使用石器而非金屬器具；以及（七）在與歐洲接觸之前，文化變遷的速度相當緩慢。

部落藝術(P,,U,繁體中文-偏好,D,U,U)
部族藝術(,U,繁體中文-非偏好,UF,U,U)
pu lo i shu (P,,U,韋氏拼音-偏好,UF,U,U)
bù luò yì shù (P,,U,漢語拼音-偏好,UF,U,U)
bu luo yi shu (P,,U,漢語拼音(無聲調)-偏好,UF,U,U)
tribal art(P,,U,英文-偏好,D,U,SN)
tribal arts(,U,英文-非偏好,AD,U,PN)
ethnographic art(,U,英文-非偏好,UF,U,U)

藝術與建築詞典根目錄
....關聯概念層面
........關聯概念
............<藝術概念>
................<藝術類型 (藝術概念)>
....................藝術類型 (造型內容分類)
........................部落藝術

meaning/usage overlaps with....

原始藝術

英文....

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.

部落藝術............	[AS-Academia Sinica]
.................	AAT-Taiwan 借詞編輯與使用原則 (2013)
部族藝術............	[AS-Academia Sinica]
.................	AAT-Taiwan 借詞編輯與使用原則 (2013)
tribal art............	[VP]
.................	Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 8 November 2010
.................	Schuster and Carpenter, Patterns That Connect (1996) title
.................	Biebuyck, Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art (1969) title
tribal arts............	[VP]
.................	Grove Art Online (2008-)
.................	Bacquart, Tribal Arts of Africa (2002) title
ethnographic art............	[VP]
.................	Grove Art Online (2008-)

Getty AAT: 300343731 Getty AAT: http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=costume&logic=AND¬e=&subjectid=300343731
聯合目錄： 部落藝術 、部族藝術 、pu lo i shu 、bù luò yì shù 、bu luo yi shu 、tribal art 、tribal arts 、ethnographic art