Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics

Name: Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780198279457

ISBN-10: 0198279450

ISBN-13: 9780198279457

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Jeremy Coote, Anthony Shelton

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This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions of non-Western art held, and new courses in the anthropology of art established. This collection is part of and complements these developments, contributing to the general resurgence of interest in what has been until recently a comparatively neglected field of academic study and intellectual debate. Unlike many previous collections, the focus of this volume is resolutely anthropological. The contributors draw on contemporary anthropological theory and exchange,…

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List price: $96.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/2/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




The Anthropology of Art



Raymond Firth: Art and Anthropology



Alfred Gell: The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology



Objects and Interpretations



Ross Bowden: Art, Architecture, and Collective Representations in a New Guinea Soceity



Susanne Kuchler: Making Skins


Malangan and the Idiom of Kinship in Northern New Ireland



Jarich Oosten: Representing the Spirits


The Masks of the Alaskan Inuit



Traditions and Innovations



Robert Layton: Traditional and Contemporary Art of Aboriginal Australia



Ruth Barnes: Textile Design in Southern Lembata


Tradition and Change



The Anthropology of Aesthetics



Howard Morphy: From Dull to Brilliant


The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power among the Yolngu



Anthony Shelton: Predicates of Aesthetic Judgement


Ontology and Value in Huichol Material Representations



Jeremy Coote: `Marvels of Everyday Vision'


The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-Keeping Nilotes