Contesting Art

Jeremy MacClancy Oxford Brookes University

'Here we have an interesting collection of new ethnographic studies examining the nexus between art, politics and cultural identity.'... 'Economically priced, well indexed and adequately illustrated, 'Contesting Art' makes a fine contribution to the growing literature in this field.'Canberra Anthropology'[This book] finds its unity by focusing on the use of art as a means of creating and affirming identity in multicultural contexts... [an] excellent book.'American Anthropologist'Contesting Art is written in a lucid style which makes it accessible and useful. It is also noteworthy for examining Western art anthropologically, not only focusing on societites outside the West.'Ethnos'The range of questions raised here is astonishing and the controversies are endlessly provocative.'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute'Important and interesting issues of art,empowerment,and advocacy in a changing and increasingly interconnected world...Contesting art is wri

• Contents: Jeremy MacClancy, Anthropology, Art and Contest -- Maruska Svasek, Power, Identity and Style: Defining Self and Other through Ghanaian Art -- Barbara Saunders, Contested Ethnie in two Kwakiutl Museums -- A. David Napier, Losing One's Marbles: Cultural Property and Indigenous Thought -- Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Art, Argument and Anger on the Northwest Coast -- Jeremy MacClancy, Negotiating ‘Basque Art' -- Ian Fowler, Tribal and Palatine Arts of the Cameroons Grassfields: Elements for a ‘Traditional' Regional Identity -- Murray Satov, Catalogues, Collectors, Curators: The Tribal Art Market and Anthropology