Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins, eds.
The Anthropology of Art: A Reader
Malden, MA:
Blackwell,
2005.
566 pp.; 239 b/w ills.
Paper
$49.95
(9781405105620)
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There are two kinds of anthropologists of art: (a) those who look deeply at the artifacts’ formal qualities (design, shape, iconic references . . .), and (b) those who look at how the artifacts are used (circulated, displayed, collected, narrated . . .). Let’s try again. There are two kinds of anthropologists of art: (i) those who focus on relatively autonomous material objects (on the analogy of painting and sculpture), and (ii) those who focus...