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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative arts', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal as the discipline turned towards social analysis in the 1920s. This book addresses a major moment of renewal in the anthropology of art in the 1960s and 1970s. British anthropologist Anthony Forge (1929-1991), trained in Cambridge, undertook fieldwork among the Abelam of Papua New Guinea in the late 1950s and 1960s, and wrote influentially, especially about issues of style and meaning in art. His powerful, question-raising arguments addressed basic issues, asking why so much art was produced in some regions, and why was it so socially important Fifty years later, art has renewed global significance, and anthropologists are again considering both its local expressions among Indigenous peoples and its new global circulation. In this context, Forge's arguments have renewed relevance: they help scholars and students understand the genealogies of current debates, and remind us of fundamental questions that remain unanswered.This volume brings together Forge's most important writings on the anthropology of art, published over a thirty year period, together with six assessments of his legacy, including extended reappraisals of Sepik ethnography, by distinguished anthropologists from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Anthony Forge was born in London in 1929. A student at Downing College, Cambridge, he studied anthropology with Edmund Leach, and went on to undertake research with Raymond Firth at the London School of Economics. Over 1958-63 he undertook several periods of fieldwork among the Abelam of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, made major collections for the Museum der Kulturen, Basel, and went on to write a series of essays which were enormously influential for the anthropology of art and for studies of Melanesia. He was appointed Foundation Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University in 1974 and taught there until his death in 1991.ContentsList of imagesPrefaceGeneral IntroductionPart 1: Anthony Forge on art, 1960-19901. Introduction to Primitive Art and Society (1973a)2. Three Kamanggabi figures from the Arambak people of the Sepik district (1960a)3. Notes on Eastern Abelam designs painted on paper, New Guinea (1960b)4. Paint, a magical substance (1962)5. Art and environment in the Sepik (1965)6. The Abelam artist (1967)7. Style and meaning in Sepik Art (1973b)8. The problem of meaning in art. Exploring the visual art of Oceania (1979)9. Learning to see in New Guinea (1970)10. The power of culture and the culture of power (1990)11. Undated introduction to the proceedings from the second Wenner-Gren conference on Sepik Culture History 1986, Mijas, Spain.Part 2: On Forge12. Anthony Forge and Alfred Bühler: From Field Collecting to FriendshipChristian Kaufmann13. Style and meaning: Abelam art through Yolngu eyesHoward Morphy14. Anthony Forge and Innovation: perspectives from Vanuatu Lissant Bolton15. The Problem of Agency in ArtLudovic Coupaye16. Looking back, Abelam art and some of Forge's theses from a 2015 perspectiveBrigitta Hauser-Schäublin17. Communicating with Anthony ForgeMichael O'HanlonAppendix: Forge's collectionsBibliographyAcknowledgements 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. They form a constant of human behaviour. Through religion, cult and rituals, multi-layered and complex cultural norms are expressed, demonstrating group affiliation. However, popular devotion and belief in a rural environment can include practices that are out with those of the official religion. Some of these practices discussed in this book can be investigated through archaeology. Important religious sites like churches, monasteries, mosques and synagogues as well as caves, holy wells and hermitages are discussed. Furthermore burials of children, revenants and the condemned are analysed, as they often deviate from normal practice and shed light on particular communities and their beliefs. Rituals concerning the protection of buildings and persons which focus on objects attributed with religious qualities are another area explored. Through archaeological research it is possible to gain an understanding of popular religion of medieval and early modern times and also to draw conclusions about religious ideas that are not written in documents. By bringing together these topics this book is of particular interest to scholars working in the field of archaeology, history and cultural anthropology.The addressed subjects were the theme of an international conference of the RURALIA association held in Clervaux, Luxemburg, in September 2015. Ruralia promotes the archaeology of medieval settlement and rural life. Current research questions in rural archaeology are discussed in an European wide context. The aim is to strengthen the exchange of knowledge in, and the development of, archaeologically comparable studies, and to make archaeological results available to other disciplines.This book contains papers in English, French and German 400 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative arts', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal as the discipline turned towards social analysis in the 1920s. This book addresses a major moment of renewal in the anthropology of art in the 1960s and 1970s. British anthropologist Anthony Forge (1929-1991), trained in Cambridge, undertook fieldwork among the Abelam of Papua New Guinea in the late 1950s and 1960s, and wrote influentially, especially about issues of style and meaning in art. His powerful, question-raising arguments addressed basic issues, asking why so much art was produced in some regions, and why was it so socially important Fifty years later, art has renewed global significance, and anthropologists are again considering both its local expressions among Indigenous peoples and its new global circulation. In this context, Forge's arguments have renewed relevance: they help scholars and students understand the genealogies of current debates, and remind us of fundamental questions that remain unanswered.This volume brings together Forge's most important writings on the anthropology of art, published over a thirty year period, together with six assessments of his legacy, including extended reappraisals of Sepik ethnography, by distinguished anthropologists from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.Anthony Forge was born in London in 1929. A student at Downing College, Cambridge, he studied anthropology with Edmund Leach, and went on to undertake research with Raymond Firth at the London School of Economics. Over 1958-63 he undertook several periods of fieldwork among the Abelam of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, made major collections for the Museum der Kulturen, Basel, and went on to write a series of essays which were enormously influential for the anthropology of art and for studies of Melanesia. He was appointed Foundation Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University in 1974 and taught there until his death in 1991.ContentsList of imagesPrefaceGeneral IntroductionPart 1: Anthony Forge on art, 1960-19901. Introduction to Primitive Art and Society (1973a)2. Three Kamanggabi figures from the Arambak people of the Sepik district (1960a)3. Notes on Eastern Abelam designs painted on paper, New Guinea (1960b)4. Paint, a magical substance (1962)5. Art and environment in the Sepik (1965)6. The Abelam artist (1967)7. Style and meaning in Sepik Art (1973b)8. The problem of meaning in art. Exploring the visual art of Oceania (1979)9. Learning to see in New Guinea (1970)10. The power of culture and the culture of power (1990)11. Undated introduction to the proceedings from the second Wenner-Gren conference on Sepik Culture History 1986, Mijas, Spain.Part 2: On Forge12. Anthony Forge and Alfred Bühler: From Field Collecting to FriendshipChristian Kaufmann13. Style and meaning: Abelam art through Yolngu eyesHoward Morphy14. Anthony Forge and Innovation: perspectives from VanuatuLissant Bolton15. The Problem of Agency in ArtLudovic Coupaye16. Looking back, Abelam art and some of Forge's theses from a 2015 perspectiveBrigitta Hauser-Schäublin17. Communicating with Anthony ForgeMichael O'HanlonAppendix: Forge's collectionsBibliographyAcknowledgements 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. They form a constant of human behaviour. Through religion, cult and rituals, multi-layered and complex cultural norms are expressed, demonstrating group affiliation. However, popular devotion and belief in a rural environment can include practices that are out with those of the official religion.Some of these practices discussed in this book can be investigated through archaeology. Important religious sites like churches, monasteries, mosques and synagogues as well as caves, holy wells and hermitages are discussed. Furthermore burials of children, revenants and the condemned are analysed, as they often deviate from normal practice and shed light on particular communities and their beliefs. Rituals concerning the protection of buildings and persons which focus on objects attributed with religious qualities are another area explored. Through archaeological research it is possible to gain an understanding of popular religion of medieval and early modern times and also to draw conclusions about religious ideas that are not written in documents. By bringing together these topics this book is of particular interest to scholars working in the field of archaeology, history and cultural anthropology.The addressed subjects were the theme of an international conference of the RURALIA association held in Clervaux, Luxemburg, in September 2015. Ruralia promotes the archaeology of medieval settlement and rural life. Current research questions in rural archaeology are discussed in an European wide context. The aim is to strengthen the exchange of knowledge in, and the development of, archaeologically comparable studies, and to make archaeological results available to other disciplines.This book contains papers in English, French and German 400 pp. Englisch.