The Anthropology of Art: A Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

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