Title: Anthropology of the arts : a reader /
Authors: Bakke, Gretchen Anna,; Peterson, Marina
Year: 2017
Subjects: Art and anthropology.; Arts and society; Ethnology in art.
Abstract: A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, performance, video, and film, it presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural human experience of art. Introducing students to the basics as well as the latest scholarship, the book features: - 45 chapters which combine classic texts from anthropologists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, Bronislaw Malinowski, Alfred Gell, Franz Boas, and Mary Douglas with recent scholarship by George Marcus, Tim Ingold, Roger Sansi, Christopher Pinney, Georgina Born, and others - Both theoretical and ethnographic readings, with coverage ranging from Bali, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Australia to the United States - Introductory materials, ethnographic exercises, further reading ideas, and alternative suggestions for navigating the content based on medium, geography, theory, or ethnography Designed for classroom use, Anthropology of the Arts is invaluable for teaching and learning.
Contents: Introduction / Gretchen Bakke and Marina Peterson -- Canoes and sailing/the ceremonial building of a waga / Bronisław Malinowski -- Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases : a study in the history of conventional designs, based on the materials in the U.S. National Museum / Franz Boas -- The problem defined : the need for an anthropology of art / Alfred Gell -- Art as experience / John Dewey -- The genuine article / Mary Douglas -- "A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture, truly" : notes on image making in anthropology and elsewhere / Dale Pesmen -- The science of the concrete / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Reputation as process / Howard S. Becker -- The recording studio as fetish / Louise Meintjes -- On weaving a basket / Tim Ingold -- Performing L.A. / Marina Peterson -- The 'art' and 'science' of handcrafting cheese in the United States / Heather Paxson -- Surface revelations : ecologies and epistemologies of rock art / Severin Fowles and Benjamin Alberti --^