1st Edition
Contesting Art Art, Politics and Identity in the Modern World
Edited By Jeremy MacClancy
Copyright 1997
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of culture.This pioneering book breaks with the tradition of the anthropology of art as the depoliticized... Read more
Contents: Jeremy MacClancy, Anthropology, Art and Contest -- Maruska Svasek, Power, Identity and Style: Defining Self and Other through Ghanaian Art -- Barbara Saunders, Contested Ethnie in two Kwakiutl Museums -- A. David Napier, Losing One's Marbles: Cultural Property and Indigenous Thought -- Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Art, Argument and Anger on the Northwest Coast -- Jeremy MacClancy, Negotiating ‘Basque Art' -- Ian Fowler, Tribal and Palatine Arts of the Cameroons Grassfields: Elements for a ‘Traditional' Regional Identity -- Murray Satov, Catalogues, Collectors, Curators: The Tribal Art Market and Anthropology
Biography
Jeremy MacClancy Oxford Brookes University
