An Assemblage of Spirits
Author | : Louise Lincoln |
Publisher | : George Braziller Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807611876 |
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Author | : Louise Lincoln |
Publisher | : George Braziller Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807611876 |
Author | : Louise Lincoln |
Publisher | : George Braziller |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art |
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The distinctive artistic styles of the people of New Ireland, an island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Melanesia in the South Pacific, are characterized by an appreciation for fine carving, a taste for vivid colors, and imaginative combinations of human and animal forms. This volume provides an elaborate visual repertoire of their art and explores the relationship between the art of New Ireland and the religion and rituals of its society.
Author | : L. Lincoln |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Louise Lincoln |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Christopher Pinney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-05-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000180948 |
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 thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen, not as bearers of meaning or aesthetic value, but as forms mediating social action. At a stroke, Gell provocatively dismissed many longstanding but tired questions of definition and issues of aesthetic value. His book proposed a novel perspective on the roles of art in political practice and made fresh links between analyses of style, tradition and society. Offering a new overview of the anthropology of art, this book begins where Gell left off. Presenting wide-ranging critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy and the politics of postcolonial art, its distinguished contributors both elaborate on and dissent from the controversies of Gells important text. Subjects covered include music and the internet as well as ethnographic traditions and contemporary indigenous art. Geographically its case studies range from India to Oceania to North America and Europe.
Author | : Ing-Marie Back Danielsson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526142864 |
This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeological image analysis, it argues for the importance of ontology, redefining images as material processes or events that draw together differing aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: ‘Emergent images’, which focuses on practices of making; ‘Images as process’, which examines the making and role of images in prehistoric societies; and ‘Unfolding images’, which focuses on how images change as they are made and circulated. Featuring contributions from archaeologists, Egyptologists, anthropologists and artists, it highlights the multiple role of images in prehistoric and historic societies, while demonstrating that scholars need to recognise their dynamic and changeable character.
Author | : John L. Comaroff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226114732 |
In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland’s efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; a chiefdom made into a global business by means of its platinum holdings; San “Bushmen” with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the rapid growth of marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations are just some of the diverse examples that fall under the Comaroffs’ incisive scrutiny. These phenomena range from the disturbing through the intriguing to the absurd. Through them, the Comaroffs trace the contradictory effects of neoliberalism as it transforms identities and social being across the globe. Ethnicity, Inc. is a penetrating account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation—while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets and regimes of consumption. Intellectually rigorous but leavened with wit, this is a powerful, highly original portrayal of a new world being born in a tectonic collision of culture, capitalism, and identity.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of the Interior and Related Agencies |
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Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies |
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Total Pages | : 1116 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Matei Candea |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135998701 |
The social sciences and humanities are now being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom ‘everything is a society and every science a sociology’. Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era. Reclaimed from a century of near-oblivion, his sociology has been linked to Foucaultian microphysics of power, to Deleuze's philosophy of difference, and most recently to the spectrum of approaches related to Actor Network Theory. In this connection, Bruno Latour hailed Tarde’s sociology as "an alternative beginning for an alternative social science". This volume asks what such an alternative social science might look like.