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- catalog abstract ""The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Alfred Gell's writing, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological inquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gell's highly original exploration of diagrammatic imagery as the site where social relations and cognitive processes converge and crystallise."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11191487.
- catalog contributor b11191488.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Alfred Gell's writing, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological inquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gell's highly original exploration of diagrammatic imagery as the site where social relations and cognitive processes converge and crystallise."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The published work of Alfred Gell (1971-1998)": p. 283-285.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: notes on seminar culture and some other influences -- Strathernograms, of the semiotics of mixed metaphors -- Inter-tribal commodity barter and reproductive gift exchange in old Melanesia -- The market wheel: symbolic aspects of an Indian tribal market -- Style and meaning in Umeda dance -- The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology -- Vogel's net: traps as artworks and artworks as traps -- On Coote's 'Marvels of everyday vision' -- The language of the forest: landscape and phonological iconism in Umeda -- Exalting the King and obstructing the state: a political interpretation of royal ritual in Bastar District, Central India.".
- catalog extent "xv, 294 p., [4] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0485195674 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0485196603 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; no. 67".
- catalog isPartOf "Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 67.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press,".
- catalog subject "301 21".
- catalog subject "Anthropology.".
- catalog subject "GN29 .G45 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: notes on seminar culture and some other influences -- Strathernograms, of the semiotics of mixed metaphors -- Inter-tribal commodity barter and reproductive gift exchange in old Melanesia -- The market wheel: symbolic aspects of an Indian tribal market -- Style and meaning in Umeda dance -- The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology -- Vogel's net: traps as artworks and artworks as traps -- On Coote's 'Marvels of everyday vision' -- The language of the forest: landscape and phonological iconism in Umeda -- Exalting the King and obstructing the state: a political interpretation of royal ritual in Bastar District, Central India.".
- catalog title "The art of anthropology : essays and diagrams / Alfred Gell ; edited by Eric Hirsch.".
- catalog type "text".