ANTHROPOLOGY, ART, AND AESTHETICS
Oxford: 1992, 1994. xiii, 281 pages of text containing 69 photographs and 3 maps, plus 8 unnumbered pages of color photographs. Item #9162
This exceptional collection of ten essays on anthropological aesthetics is heavily oriented to the cultures of the Pacific and Southeast Asia (seven essays, and one each on Huichol art, pre-historic and historic period Eskimo masks, and the aesthetics of the Nilotes of the southern Sudan). Each essay illustrates a specific anthropological approach and develops a particular argument; many present new ethnography based on recent field research. Among the contributors are the editors and Anthony Shelton, Raymond Firth, Ross Bowden, Susanne Kuchler, Jarich Oosten, Robert Layton, Ruth Barnes, and Howard Morphy.
Price: $34.00