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Anthropology, art, and aesthetics / edited by Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton. - xi, 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm. - Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms . - Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Art and anthropology / Technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology / Art, architecture, and collective representations in a New Guinea society / Making skins : Malangan and the idiom of kinship in northern New Ireland / Representing the spirits : the masks of the Alaskan Inuit / Traditional and contemporary art of Aboriginal Australia : two case studies / Textile design in southern Lembata : tradition and change / From dull to brilliant : the aesthetics of spiritual power among the Yolngu / Predicates of aesthetic judgement : ontology and value in Huichol material representations / 'Marvels of everyday vision' : the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping nilotes / Raymond Firth -- Alfred Gell -- Ross Bowden -- Susanne Küchler -- Jarich Oosten -- Robert Layton -- Ruth Barnes -- Howard Morphy -- Anthony Shelton -- Jeremy Coote

ISBN: 0198279450 9780198279457 0198277334 9780198277330

LCCN: 91034843

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art and anthropology
Art and society.
Art, Primitive

LC Class. No.: N72.S6 / A65 1992

Dewey Class. No.: 701.03