Beyond Aesthetics

Anthropologists have to wrestle with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. This book furthers the view which links analy... » 

Anthropologists have to wrestle with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. This book furthers the view which links analyses of style, tradition and society proposed by Alfred Gell, both elaborating on and dissenting from Gell's interpretation. «