Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics

by Coote, Jeremy; Shelton, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780198277330
• ISBN10: 0198277334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-11-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Unlike previous works on "primitive" art, this collection resolutely grounds itself in anthropology. The contributors draw on current theory as well as analyses of classical anthropological topics such as myth, ritual, and exchange, in order to further the reader's understanding of particular aesthetic traditions in their cultural and historical contexts. Included is an analysis of cross-cultural applications of such concepts as art and aesthetics.

Table of Contents

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

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