The Anthropology of Art : A Reader.

The Anthropology of Art -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice -- Part I Foundations and Framing the Discipline -- 1 Primitive Art -- 2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America -- 3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art -- 4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art -- 5 Tikopia Art and Society -- 6 The Abelam Artist -- Part II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts -- 7 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction -- 8 Defective Affinities: ''Primitivism'' in 20th Century Art -- 9 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern -- 10 A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places -- 11 Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art -- 12 Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections -- 13 Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps -- Part III Aesthetics across Cultures -- 14 Yoruba Artistic Criticism -- 15 Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts -- 16 ''Marvels of Everyday Vision'': The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes -- 17 From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu -- Part IV Form, Style, and Meaning -- 18 Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems -- 19 Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual -- 20 Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans' Masks -- 21 All Things Made -- 22 Modernity and the ''Graphicalization'' of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective -- Part V Marketing Culture -- 23 Arts of the Fourth World -- 24 The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the ''Strictly Commercial'' -- 25 The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market -- Part VI Contemporary Artists.

26 A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art -- 27 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings -- 28 Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist's Approach -- 29 Kinds of Knowing -- 30 Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another -- Index.

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