The anthropology of art : a reader

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2006

Subject:

Art and anthropology
Art and society

Contributor:

Perkins, Morgan
Morphy, Howard

ISBN:

9781405105613, 1405105615, 9781405105620, 1405105623, 1405105615 (hardcover : alk. paper), 1405105623 (pbk. : alk. paper), 9781405105620 (pbk. : alk. paper), and 9781405105613 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Description:

x, 566 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Primitive Art / Franz Boas -- Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Introduction to tribes and Forms in African Art / William Fagg -- Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art / Gregory Bateson -- Tikopea Art and Society / Raymond Firth -- Abelam Artist / Anthony Forge -- Modernist primitivism : an introduction / William Rubin -- Defective affinities: primitivism in 20th Century Art / Arthur C. Danto -- Histories of the Tribal and the Modern / James Clifford -- Case in Point and afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places / Sally Price -- Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern art / Craig Clunas -- Introduction to art/artifact: African art in anthropology collections / Susan Vogel -- Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps / Alfred Gell -- Yoruba Artistic Criticism / Robert Farris Thompson -- Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts / Heather Lechtman -- Marvels of Everyday Vision: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-Keeping nilotes / Jeremy Coote -- From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu / Howard Morphy -- Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems / Nancy D. Munn -- Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual / Abraham Rossman and Paula G. Rubel -- Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shaman's Mask / Aldona Jonaitis -- All things made / David M. Guss -- Modernity and the 'Graphicalization' of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective / Michael O'Hanlon -- Arts of the fourth world / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the strictly commercial / Ruth B. Phillips -- Art of the Trade: on the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African art market / Christopher B. Steiner --oughts / Heather Lechtman -- Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art / Nicholas Thomas -- Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic paintings / Fred Myers -- Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artists Approach / Gordon Bennett -- Kinds of knowing / Charlotte Townsend-Gault -- Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another / Jolene Rickard

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

N72.A56 A67 2005

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