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Appropriation as Practice : Art and Identity in Argentina / by A. Schneider.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Arnd, 1960-
- Series:
- Studies of the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Culture.
- Anthropology.
- Sociology.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Latin American Culture.
- Local Subjects:
- Arts.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Latin American Culture.
- Anthropology.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Paradoxes of Identity in Argentina
- Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations: On Appropriation and Culture Change
- Chapter 3 The Buenos Aires Art World: Sites of Appropriation
- Chapter 4 Copy and Creation: Potters, Graphic Designers, Textile Artists
- Chapter 5 Fashionable Savages: Photographic Representations of the Indigenous
- Chapter 6 Setting up Roots: On the Set of a Cinema Movie in a Mapuche Reservation
- Chapter 7 Practices of Artistic Fieldwork and Representation: The Case of Teresa Pereda's Bajo el Nombre de San Juan
- Chapter 8 The Indiginization of Identity
- Appendix I: A Note on Methodology, or the Challenge of Artistic Practices
- Appendix II: Structure of the Buenos Aires Art World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Subject Index
- N
- W.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis (Habilitation)--University of Hamburg, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-226) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611369798
- 9781281369796
- 1281369799
- 9781403983176
- 1403983178
- OCLC:
- 277005918
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