Anthropology, art, and aesthetics
By: edited by Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton.
Contributors: Coote, Jeremy.; Shelton, Anthony.
Series: Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780198277330
Subjects: Art and anthropology; Art and society; Art, Primitive
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Art and anthropology / Raymond Firth; title: Technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology / Alfred Gell; title: Art, architecture, and collective representations in a New Guinea society / Ross Bowden; title: Making skins : Malangan and the idiom of kinship in northern New Ireland / Susanne Küchler; title: Representing the spirits : the masks of the Alaskan Inuit / Jarich Oosten; title: Traditional and contemporary art of Aboriginal Australia : two case studies / Robert Layton; title: Textile design in southern Lembata : tradition and change / Ruth Barnes; title: From dull to brilliant : the aesthetics of spiritual power among the Yolngu / Howard Morphy; title: Predicates of aesthetic judgement : ontology and value in Huichol material representations / Anthony Shelton; title: 'Marvels of everyday vision' : the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping nilotes / Jeremy Coote.