Alfred Gell

The Art of Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Essays and Diagrams

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000321043
• Artikelnr.: 60032516

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