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Anthropology of Art A Reader

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ISBN-10: 1405105623

ISBN-13: 9781405105620

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Howard Morphy, Morgan Perkins

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This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of various cultures at different times. An essay from the editors, offering an intellectual critique of the history of the discipline and exploring the contribution that the analysis of art can make to human societies, prefaces the volume; each part also begins with a useful editorial introduction to the readings. The readings themselves cover all the major debates in the field, including: definitions of art and aesthetics; the nature of…    
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Book details

List price: $72.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Acknowledgments
About the Editors
The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice
Foundations and Framing the Discipline
Primitive Art
Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America
Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art
Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art
Tikopia Art and Society
The Abelam Artist
Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts
Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction
Defective Affinities: "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art
Histories of the Tribal and the Modern
A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places
Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art
Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections
Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps
Aesthetics across Cultures
Yoruba Artistic Criticism
Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts
"Marvels of Everyday Vision": The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes
From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu
Form, Style, and Meaning
Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems
Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual
Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans' Masks
All Things Made
Modernity and the "Graphicalization" of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective
Marketing Culture
Arts of the Fourth World
The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the "Strictly Commercial"
The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market
Contemporary Artists
A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art
Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings
Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist's Approach
Kinds of Knowing
Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another
Index