"This book looks at the unique characteristics of cultural organizations and shows readers how to tailor a strategic plan to help these organizations meet their objectives. Including examples, cases, questions and suggestions for further reading, this book is designed to accompa…
"Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana--wooden anthropomorphic carvings--which play vital roles in curing and othe…
Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art
Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art concentrates on the visual, material, and built aspects of the Ancient Near East from the fourth millennium BCE to the Hellenistic period. Presenting innovative theoretical approaches to Ancient Near Eastern art history, this volum…
"Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, Anthropologies of Art examines the intersections and divergences between anthropology and art history"--Back cover.
Aby Warburg is best known as the originator of the discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that bears his name. This text shows that Warburg's own project was remote from any positivist or neo-Kantian ambitions.
"Pamela M. Lee's New games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of 'the contemporary.' What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In lo…
"Pamela M. Lee's New games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of 'the contemporary.' What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In lo…
Heidegger and the work of art history
Heidegger and the work of art history explores the impact and future possibilities of Heidegger's philosophy for art history and visual culture in the twenty-first century. Scholars from the fields of art history, visual and material studies, design, philosophy, aesthetics and n…
Anthropology and art practice
"Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as 'art-ethnography'. In engaging with the concerns of bot…