Howard Morphy & Morgan Perkins 
The Anthropology of Art [PDF ebook] 
A Reader

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.

* * Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond
traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art.

* Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different
cultures and times.

* Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art
and of the important role it plays in human society.

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Acknowledgments viii

About the Editors x

The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice 1
Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins

Part I Foundations and Framing the Discipline 33

1 Primitive Art 39
Franz Boas

2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America 56
Claude Le´vi-Strauss

3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art 74
William Fagg

4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art 78
Gregory Bateson

5 Tikopia Art and Society 91
Raymond Firth

6 The Abelam Artist 109
Anthony Forge

Part II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts 123

7 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction 129
William Rubin

8 Defective Affinities: ”Primitivism” in 20th Century Art 147
Arthur C. Danto

9 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern 150
James Clifford

10 A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places 167
Sally Price

11 Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art 186
Craig Clunas

12 Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections 209
Susan Vogel

13 Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps 219
Alfred Gell

Part III Aesthetics across Cultures 237

14 Yoruba Artistic Criticism 242
Robert Farris Thompson

15 Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts 270
Heather Lechtman

16 ”Marvels of Everyday Vision”: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes 281
Jeremy Coote

17 From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu 302
Howard Morphy

Part IV Form, Style, and Meaning 321

18 Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems 326
Nancy D. Munn

19 Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual 339
Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel

20 Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans’ Masks 358
Aldona Jonaitis

21 All Things Made 374
David M. Guss

22 Modernity and the ”Graphicalization” of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective 387
Michael O’Hanlon

Part V Marketing Culture 407

23 Arts of the Fourth World 412
Nelson H. H. Graburn

24 The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the ”Strictly Commercial” 431
Ruth B. Phillips

25 The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market 454
Christopher B. Steiner

Part VI Contemporary Artists 467

26 A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art 472
Nicholas Thomas

27 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings 495
Fred Myers

28 Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist’s Approach 513
Gordon Bennett

29 Kinds of Knowing 520
Charlotte Townsend-Gault

30 Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another 544
Jolene Rickard

Index 549

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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