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A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the start textbook to become beyond visual art to cover the arts more than broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, perf...

A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go across visual fine art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, functioning, video, and moving picture, information technology presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural human experience of art. Introducing students to the nuts every bit well every bit the latest scholarship, the book features: - 45 chapters which combine classic texts from anthropologists such every bit Pierre Bourdieu, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, Bronislaw Malinowski, Alfred Gell, Franz Boas, and Mary Douglas with recent scholarship past 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, Arab republic of egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Australia to the United States - Introductory materials, ethnographic exercises, further reading ideas, and culling suggestions for navigating the content based on medium, geography, theory, or ethnography Designed for classroom utilise, Anthropology of the Arts is invaluable for pedagogy and learning.

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edited by Gretchen Bakke and Marina Peterson

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• London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]
• ©2017

Physical Details

• ten, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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9781472585936, 1472585933, 9781472585929, 1472585925

OCLC

ocn955313009

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

• Introduction / Gretchen Bakke and Marina Peterson -- Canoes and sailing/the formalism edifice of a waga / Bronisław Malinowski -- Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases : a report 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 procedure / Howard Due south. 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 of america / Heather Paxson -- Surface revelations : ecologies and epistemologies of rock art / Severin Fowles and Benjamin Alberti -- The historical genesis of a pure aesthetic / Pierre Bourdieu -- Music, modernism and signification / Georgina Born -- 'Marvels of everyday vision' : the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping Nilotes / Jeremy Coote -- Piercing the peel of the idol / Christopher Pinney -- From ethnomusicology to echo-muse-ecology : reading R. Murray Schafer in the Papua New Guinea rainforest / Steven Feld -- Mansions of the Lord : architecture, interiority, domesticity / John 50. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Techniques of the body / Marcel Mauss -- "A gesture narrowly divides us from anarchy" : gesture and word in trance time / Deborah Kapchan -- An anthropologist underwater : immersive soundscapes, submarine cyborgs, and transductive ethnography / Stefan Helmreich -- 'Joyous maggots' : the symbolism of Yolngu mortuary rituals / Howard Morphy -- Necro-utopia : the politics of indistinction and the aesthetics of the non-Soviet / Alexei Yurchak -- Incorporations : contemporary Slovene art and the body politic / Gretchen Bakke -- Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight / Clifford Geertz -- The nature of performance / Richard Bauman -- Preliminary notes on audiences in Africa / Karen Hairdresser -- The interpretation of culture(s) subsequently television receiver / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Games as the play of simulation / Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman -- On punk and repulsion, a misfit theory of society / Shane Greene -- Hollywood and the UsaA. / Hortense Powdermaker -- The product of European loftier civilization in Los Angeles : the J. Paul Getty Trust every bit artificial curiosity / George E. Marcus -- Degraded images, distorted sounds : Nigerian video and the infrastructure of piracy / Brian Larkin -- Some properties of fine art and civilization / Fred Myers -- Cultural sovereignty in a global fine art economy : Egyptian cultural policy and the new western involvement in fine art from the Heart East / Jessica Winegar -- Cultures in dialogue? / Emerge Price -- Fields and labs / Roger Sansi -- On ethnographic surrealism / James Clifford -- Twenty-seventh day / Katherine Dunham -- A talk with Katherine Dunham / Dorathi Bock Pierre -- A parade in Erhenrang / Ursula Le Guin -- For God's sake, Margaret : conversation with Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead / Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead -- I swear I saw this : drawings in fieldwork notebooks, namely my own / Michael Taussig -- Marina Abramović : intersecting worlds, higher dimensions, and metastable shimmerings / Marko Živković

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