Traffic in Culture Refiguring Art and Anthropology

Name: Traffic in Culture Refiguring Art and Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780520088474

ISBN-10: 0520088476

ISBN-13: 9780520088474

Edition: 1996

Authors: George E. Marcus, Fred R. Myers

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The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical, ethnographic light on the art worlds of the contemporary West and their "traffic" in non-Western objects. Starting from the premise that the traditional anthropology of art has been developed within categories and practices of Western art worlds themselves, this volume develops a new framework for understanding how western art--its avant-gardes, scholars, commentators, and collectors--have appropriated anthropological subjects like the "primitive" and the "exotic…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/21/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

George E. Marcus is professor of political science at Williams College.



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