Anthropology of Art

Howard Morphy is Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University and Honorary Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Morgan Perkins is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Art, Director of the Weaver Museum of Anthropology, and Director of the Museum Studies Program, at SUNY, Potsdam

“The Anthropology of Art is a superb compilation that enables both scholar and student to have in one volume the major studies and debates in this discipline. In the insightful introduction, the editors survey the history of the field and tackle the vexing problem of defining art in cross-cultural perspective.” Ivan Karp, Emory University “An excellent, near-perfect book that demonstrates the centrality of the anthropology of art in both anthropology and art history debates. The essential reader for anyone who wants a broad, stimulating introduction to the field.”Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes University“Addresses significant debates … .Seems[s] to provide an understanding of the often subtle but underlying discourse on contemporary African art.” H-Net Reviews "A unique and timely manual that serves to connect the student with the creative impulse of man."The Electric Review

• Acknowledgments viiiAbout the Editors xThe Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice 1Howard Morphy and Morgan PerkinsPart I Foundations and Framing the Discipline 331 Primitive Art 39Franz Boas2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America 56Claude Le´vi-Strauss3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art 74William Fagg4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art 78Gregory Bateson5 Tikopia Art and Society 91Raymond Firth6 The Abelam Artist 109Anthony ForgePart II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts 1237 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction 129William Rubin8 Defective Affinities: ‘‘Primitivism’’ in 20th Century Art 147Arthur C. Danto9 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern 150James Clifford10 A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places 167Sally Price11 Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art 186Craig Clunas12 Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections 209Susan Vogel13 Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps 219Alfred GellPart III Aesthetics across Cultures 23714 Yoruba Artistic Criticism 242Robert Farris Thompson15 Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts 270Heather Lechtman16 ‘‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’’: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes 281Jeremy Coote17 From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu 302Howard MorphyPart IV Form, Style, and Meaning 32118 Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems 326Nancy D. Munn19 Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual 339Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel20 Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans’ Masks 358Aldona Jonaitis21 All Things Made 374David M. Guss22 Modernity and the ‘‘Graphicalization’’ of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective 387Michael O’HanlonPart V Marketing Culture 40723 Arts of the Fourth World 412Nelson H. H. Graburn24 The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the ‘‘Strictly Commercial’’ 431Ruth B. Phillips25 The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market 454Christopher B. SteinerPart VI Contemporary Artists 46726 A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art 472Nicholas Thomas27 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings 495Fred Myers28 Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist’s Approach 513Gordon Bennett29 Kinds of Knowing 520Charlotte Townsend-Gault30 Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another 544Jolene RickardIndex 549