Alfred Gell

The Art of Anthropology

Essays and Diagrams

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Produktbeschreibung

This work collects together the most influential of Gell's writings 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 141mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9781845204846
• ISBN-10: 1845204840
• Artikelnr.: 22195195

Autorenporträt

Alfred Gell was a reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics, and was posthumously awarded a Professorship by the School.

Inhaltsangabe

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