| Description |
xv, 294 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Series |
London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; no. 67 |
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Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 67
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Monographs on social anthropology no:67 0077-1074 |
| Subject |
Anthropology.
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| Author |
Hirsch, Eric, 1956-
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| LC no. |
99017817 |
| ISBN |
0485195674 : |
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0485196603 : |
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