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Anthropology, art, and aesthetics / edited by Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and anthropology.
- Art and society.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Anthropology, art, and aesthetics.
- ISBN:
- 9781383016529 (electronic bk.)
- 1383016526 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90101640875
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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