| Description |
xi, 281 pages : illustrations, plates [8 pages] ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms |
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Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms.
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| Contents |
Art and anthropology / Raymond Firth -- Technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology / Alfred Gell -- Art, architecture, and collective representations in a New Guinea society / Ross Bowden -- Making skins : Malangan and the idiom of kinship in northern New Ireland / Susanne Küchler -- Representing the spirits : the masks of the Alaskan Inuit / Jarich Oosten -- Traditional and contemporary art of Aboriginal Australia : two case studies / Robert Layton -- Textile design in southern Lembata : tradition and change / Ruth Barnes -- From dull to brilliant : the aesthetics of spiritual power among the Yolngu / Howard Morphy -- Predicates of aesthetic judgement : ontology and value in Huichol material representations / Anthony Shelton -- 'Marvels of everyday vision' : the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping nilotes / Jeremy Coote |
| Analysis |
Arts Aesthetics |
| Notes |
First published in 1992 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Art and anthropology.
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Art and society.
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Art, Primitive.
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| Author |
Coote, Jeremy.
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Shelton, Anthony.
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| LC no. |
91034843 |
| ISBN |
(paperback) |
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