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 different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.
Author(s): Howard Morphy, Morgan Perkins
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 576
Tags: Антропология;Социальная (культурная) антропология;
The Anthropology of Art......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 8
About the Authors......Page 10
The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice......Page 11
Part I Foundations and Framing the Discipline......Page 43
1 Primitive Art......Page 49
2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America......Page 66
3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art......Page 84
4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art......Page 88
5 Tikopia Art and Society......Page 101
6 The Abelam Artist......Page 119
Part II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts......Page 133
7 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction......Page 139
8 Defective Affinities: ‘‘Primitivism’’ in 20th Century Art......Page 157
9 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern......Page 160
10 A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places......Page 177
11 Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art......Page 196
12 Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections......Page 219
13 Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps......Page 229
Part III Aesthetics across Cultures......Page 247
14 Yoruba Artistic Criticism......Page 252
15 Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts......Page 280
16 ‘‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’’: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes......Page 291
17 From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu......Page 312
Part IV Form, Style, and Meaning......Page 331
18 Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems......Page 336
19 Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual......Page 349
20 Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans’ Masks......Page 368
21 All Things Made......Page 384
22 Modernity and the ‘‘Graphicalization’’ of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective......Page 397
Part V Marketing Culture......Page 417
23 Arts of the Fourth World......Page 422
24 The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the ‘‘Strictly Commercial’’......Page 441
25 The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market......Page 464
Part VI Contemporary Artists......Page 477
26 A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art......Page 482
27 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings......Page 505
28 Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist’s Approach......Page 523
29 Kinds of Knowing......Page 530
30 Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another......Page 554
Index......Page 559
