Anthropology, art, and aesthetics
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Anthropology, art, and aesthetics
（Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms）
Clarendon Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 both 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 some previous volumes on "primitive art" this collection is resolutely anthropological. The contributors draw on contemporary anthropological theory as well as on analyses of classic anthropological topics such as myth, ritual, and exchange, to deepen our understanding of particular aesthetic traditions in their socio-cultural and historical contexts. In addition, the cross-cultural applicability of the very concepts "art" and "aesthetics" is assessed. Each essay illustrates a specific approach and develops a particular argument. Many present new ethnography based on recent field research among Australian Aborigines, in New Guinea, Indonesia, Mexico, and elsewhere.
Others draw on classic anthropological accounts of, for example, the Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia and the Nuer of the Southern Sudan, putting this material to new uses.
Table of Contents
- I. The Anthropology of Art: Raymond Firth: Art and anthropology
- Alfred Gell: The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology
- II. Objects and Interpretations: Ross Bowden: Art, architecture, and collective representations in a New Guinea Society
- Susanne Kuchler: Making skins: Malangan and the idiom of kinship in Northern New Ireland
- Jarich Oosten: The masks of the Western Inuit
- III. Traditions and Innovations: Robert Layton: Traditional and contemporary art of aboriginal Australia: two case studies
- Ruth Barnes: Textile design in Southern Lembata, Eastern Indonesia: tradition and change
- IV. 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.
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