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The Art of Anthropology
Essays and Diagrams
Langbeschreibung
The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTS List of Plates vi Foreword by Eric Hirsch, Department of Human Sciences, BruneI University vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Notes on Seminar Culture and Some Other Influences 1 1 Strathernograms, or the Semiotics of Mixed Metaphors 29 2 Inter-Tribal Commodity Barter and Reproductive Gift Exchange in Old Melanesia 76 3 The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market 107 4 Style and Meaning in Umeda Dance 136 5 The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology 159 6 Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps 187 7 On Coote's 'Marvels of Everyday Vision' 215 8 The Language of the Forest: Landscape and Phonological Iconism in Umeda 2329 Exalting the King and Obstructing the State: A Political Interpretation of Royal Ritual in Bastar District, Central India 259 The Published Work of Alfred Gell 283 Index 286
Alfred Gell was a reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics, and was posthumously awarded a Professorship by the School.
ISBN-13:
9780485195675
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.1999
Seiten:
316
Autor:
Alfred Gell
Gewicht:
962 g
Format:
216x155x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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