The art of anthropology : essays and diagrams / Alfred Gell ; edited by Eric Hirsch
- Bib ID:
- 1617849
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gell, Alfred
- Description:
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- New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Athlone Press, 1999
- xv, 294p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0485195674 (cloth)
- 0485196603 (paperback)
- Series:
- London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; no. 67.
- Summary:
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"The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Alfred Gell's writing, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological inquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gell's highly original exploration of diagrammatic imagery as the site where social relations and cognitive processes converge and crystallise."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Eric Hirsch
- Introduction: Notes on Seminar Culture and Some Other Influences
- 1. Strathernograms, or the Semiotics of Mixed Metaphors
- 2. Inter-Tribal Commodity Barter and Reproductive Gift Exchange in Old Melanesia
- 3. The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market
- 4. Style and Meaning in Umeda Dance
- 5. The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology
- 6. Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps
- 7. On Coote's 'Marvels of Everyday Vision'
- 8. The Language of the Forest: Landscape and Phonological Iconism in Umeda
- 9. Exalting the King and Obstructing the State: A Political Interpretation of Royal Ritual in Bastar District, Central India.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hirsch, Eric, 1956-
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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