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1	African Art in Transit more books like this by Christopher B Steiner add to wishlist African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect so-called 'primitive' art in Europe and ... see all copies from $2.18! new only from $2.18! \| SVS
2	Primitive Art in Civilized Places: Second Edition more books like this by Professor Sally Price add to wishlist What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge? Drawing on a mixture of sources, this text explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. see all copies from $3.93! new only from $19.73! \| SVS
3	The Death of Authentic Primitive Art: And Other Tales of Progress more books like this by Shelly Errington add to wishlist In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cultural critics, have died as concepts. At the same ... see all copies from $16.95! new only from $26.95! \| first editions
4	What is Art For? more books like this by Ellen Dissanayake add to wishlist see all copies from $4.84! new only from $16.63! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Anthropology of Art: A Reader more books like this by Dr. Howard Morphy (Editor), Morgan Perkins (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. This title advances a cross-cultural concept of art that ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $41.33! \| SVS
6	Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor), Fred R Myers (Editor) add to wishlist The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore 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. Starting from the ... see all copies from $10.25! new only from $33.29! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory more books like this by Alfred Gell add to wishlist Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status ... see all copies from $81.75! new only from $81.75! \| SVS
8	The Anthropology Art and Cultural Production: Histories, Themes, Perspectives more books like this by Maruska Svasemaruska Svasek add to wishlist This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art. Svasek defines art as a social process. We study not only the artefacts themselves and the values attributed to them, but also the process of production and its wider context. Providing a critical overview of various anthropological theories of art, Svasek offers a new ... see all copies from $21.65! new only from $24.96! \| SVS
9	Primitive Art in Civilized Places more books like this by Professor Sally Price add to wishlist What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research and even comic strips like Doonesbury--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. "A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Contesting Art: Art, Politics and Identity in the Modern World more books like this by Jeremy Macclancy (Editor) add to wishlist Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of culture. This pioneering book breaks with the ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $14.71!
11 view cover	Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics more books like this by Jeremy Coote (Editor), Anthony Shelton (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions of non-Western art held, and new courses in the anthropology of art established. This collection is part of and ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $25.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art more books like this by David Richards add to wishlist David Richards here examines historical anthropological discourse - specifically writings about and depictions of 'savage' peoples by conquering races - as a form of textual practice. He analyses various kinds of 'naturalistic' representations, both artistic and literary, of colonised cultures, revealing the ways in which such representations ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $36.22! \| SVS
13 view cover	Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment more books like this by Christopher Pinney (Editor), Nicholas Thomas (Editor) add to wishlist The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book "Art and Agency". The central ... see all copies from $21.75! new only from $35.04! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Ancestress Hypothesis: Visual Art as Adaption more books like this by Kathryn Coe add to wishlist In our society it has long been believed that art serves very little social purpose. Evolutionary anthropologists, however, are examining a potential role for art in human evolution. Kathryn Coe looks to the visual arts of traditional societies for clues. Because they are passed down from previous generations, traditional art forms such as body ... see all copies from $8.75! new only from $14.99!
15 view cover	Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in France more books like this by Rae Beth Gordon add to wishlist Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic. Gordon weaves the history of medical science, ethnology, and popular culture into a ... see all copies from $62.96! new only from $110.14!
16 view cover	Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art more books like this by Esther Pasztory add to wishlist What is 'art'? Why have human societies through all time and around the globe created those objects we call works of art? Is there any way of defining art that can encompass everything from Paleolithic objects to the virtual images created by the latest computer technology? Questions such as these have preoccupied Esther Pasztory since the ... see all copies from $20.42! new only from $20.42! \| first editions
17 view cover	Art's Agency and Art History more books like this by Jeremy Tanner (Editor), Robin Osborne (Editor) add to wishlist "Art's Agency and Art History" re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics. It explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art. It includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art ... see all copies from $31.65! new only from $31.65!
18 view cover	Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production more books like this by Maruska Svasek add to wishlist This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art. Svasek defines art as a social process. We study not only the artefacts themselves and the values attributed to them, but also the process of production and its wider context. Providing a critical overview of various anthropological theories of art, Svasek offers a new ... see all copies from $85.00! new only from $106.96!
19	Visual Metaphors: A Formal Analysis of Navajo Art more books like this by Evelyn Hatcher add to wishlist see all copies from $9.50! first editions
20 view cover	Anthropologies of Art more books like this by Mariet Westermann (Editor) add to wishlist Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology. How do these disciplines understand the term "art"? What sorts of questions do they ask of the work of art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultural ... see all copies from $18.79! new only from $18.79! \| SVS
21 view cover	Art's Agency and Art History more books like this by Robin Osborne (Editor), Jeremy Tanner (Editor) add to wishlist "Art's Agency and Art History" re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics. It explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art. It includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art ... see all copies from $81.69! new only from $81.69! \| SVS
22 view cover	Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology more books like this by Neni Panourgia (Editor), George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 "Interpretation of Cultures", brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since Levi-Strauss' structuralism. In place of Levi-Strauss' deep structures, Geertz placed "deep meanings" and "thick descriptions," in a synthesis of the American tradition of cultural anthropology and new qualitative approaches ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $30.00! \| SVS
23	Visual Metaphors: A Methodological Study in Visual Communication more books like this by Evelyn Payne Hatcher add to wishlist see all copies from $5.17!
24	The Powers of Presence: Consciousness, Myth, and Affecting Presence more books like this by Robert P. Armstrong add to wishlist see all copies from $22.39!
25 view cover	The Anthropology of Art more books like this by Robert Layton add to wishlist Robert Layton provides an authoritative introduction to the richness and diversity of art forms in non-Western societies. He addresses the problems of aesthetic appreciation across cultures, the varied uses of art, and the fundamental problem of what constitutes 'art' in societies varying from the traditional kingdoms of West Africa, with their ... see all copies from $4.29! new only from $20.69! \| first editions \| SVS

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