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Art Art & Politics

Changing Perspectives in Anthropology of Art

Directions in Theory and Research

by (author) Valda Blundell

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2000
Category
Art & Politics, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919614888
    Publish Date
    Aug 2000
    List Price
    $19.99

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A contemporary rethinking of the ways in which anthropologists study, exhibit, and write about the aesthetic forms of other cultures. The central argument of this book is that the anthropological studies of art can benefit from recent perspectives developed in semiotics and the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies. Rather than reflecting ideas originating elsewhere in the social world, the book maintains that art contributes to the way in which the social world is structured, experienced, and reproduced.

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