Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics Paperback / softback
Edited by Jeremy (Assistant Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum, Assistant Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum) Coote, Anthony (Keeper of Non-Western art and Anthropology and Head of the Green Centre for Ethnog Shelton
Part of the Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series
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This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time.
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 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 many previous collections, the focus of this volume is resolutely anthropological.
The contributors draw on contemporary anthropological theory 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. Sir Raymond Firth's introductory overview of the history of the anthropological study of art makes this volume particularly useful for the non-specialist interested in learning what anthropology has to contribute to our understanding of art and aesthetics in general. With its wide geographical and cultural coverage and plentiful illustrations, many of which are in colour, Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics will be a valuable resource for all serious students of the subject.
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- Pages:294 pages, 8 pp colour plates, halftones, and maps throughout
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/1994
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:294 pages, 8 pp colour plates, halftones, and maps throughout
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/1994
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- ISBN:9780198279457