Traffic in Culture - Refiguring Art and Anthropology

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Sommario

Fred R. Myers, Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse for Aboriginal Acylic Paintings
Steve Feld, From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis:The Discourses and Practices of World Music and World Beat
Lynn Hart, Three Walls: Regional Aesthetics and the International Art World
Christopher B. Steiner, The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market
Molly H. Mullin, The Patronage of Difference: Making Indian Art "Art, Not Ethnology"
George E. Marcus, The Power of Contemporary Work in an American Art Tradition to Illuminate its Own Power Relations
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Confusing Pleasures
Judith L. Goldstein, The Female Aesthetic Community
Nancy Sullivan, Inside Trading: Postmodernism and the Social Drama of Sunflowers in the 1980s Art World
Carol S. Vance, Four Essays
Hal Foster, The Artist as Ethnographer?

Info autore

George E. Marcus is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and the coeditor (with James Clifford) of Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (California, 1986). Fred R. Myers is Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines (California, 1991).

Riassunto

Explores the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical, ethnographic light on the art worlds of the contemporary West and their 'traffic' in non-Western objects.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: George E Marcus, George E Marcus, George E Myers Marcus, George E. Myers Marcus, Marcus/Myers
• Con la collaborazione di: George E. Marcus (Editore), Marcus George E. (Editore), Fred R. Myers (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.12.1995
• EAN: 9780520088474
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08847-4
• Pagine: 392
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social