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Anthony Forge

Style and Meaning

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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, questio… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Clark, Alison (Hrsg.) / Thomas, Nicholas (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-90-8890-446-2
  • EAN: 9789088904462
  • Produktnummer: 22498129
  • Verlag: Sidestone Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Masse: H25.7 cm x B18.2 cm x D1.9 cm 878 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 878

Über den Autor


Prof. dr. 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. He was appointed Foundation Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University in 1974 and taught there until his death in 1991.

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