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Style and meaning : essays on the anthropology of art /

"Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal as the discipline turned towards social analysi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Forge, Anthony (author of essays in Part 1.), Clark, Alison (Research fellow) (Editor ), Thomas, Nicholas, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2017.
Colección:Pacific presences ; volume 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Part 1. Anthony Forge on art, 1960-1990. Introduction to Primitive Art and Society ; Three Kamanggabi Figures from the Arambak People of the Sepik District New Guinea ; Notes on Eastern Abelam Designs Painted on Paper, New Guinea ; Paint: A Magical Substance ; Art and Environment in the Sepik ; The Abelam Artist ; Style and Meaning in Sepik Art ; The Problem of Meaning in Art ; Learning to See in New Guinea ; The Power of Culture and the Culture of Power ; Draft Introduction to Sepik Culture History, the Proceedings from the second Wenner-Gren conference on Sepik Culture History 1986, Mijas, Spain
  • Part 2. On Forge. Anthony Forge and Alfred Bühler: From Field Collecting to Friendship / Christian Kaufmann ; Style and Meaning: Abelam Art through Yolngu Eyes / Howard Morphy ; Anthony Forge and Innovation: Perspectives from Vanuatu / Lissant Bolton ; The problem of agency in art / Ludovic Coupaye ; Looking back: Abelam art and some of Forge's theses from a 2015 perspective / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin ; Communicating with Anthony Forge / Michael O'Hanlon.