The art of anthropology : essays and diagrams /
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. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key are...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2020
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| Series: | Monographs on social anthropology ;
v. 67 |
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| Summary: | 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. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly original exploration of diagrammatic imagery as the site where social relations and cognitive processes converge and crystallise. Gell tracks this imagery across studies of tribal market transactions, dance forms, the iconicity of language and his most recent and groundbreaking analyses of artworks.Written with Gell's characteristic fluidity and grace and generously illustrated with Gell's original drawings and diagrams, the book will interest art historians, sociologists and geographers no less than anthropologists, challenging, as it does, established ideas about exchange, representation, aesthetics, cognition and spatial and temporal processes |
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| Item Description: | "First published 1999 by The Athlone Press." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1000321045 1000322750 100032446X 1003136540 9781000321043 9781000322750 9781000324464 9781003136545 |