{"product_id":"9789088904462","title":"Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art","description":"Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', 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, questioning-raising arguments addressed basic issues, asking why so much art was produced in some regions, and why was it so socially important? \u003cp\u003eFifty 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of images\u003cbr\u003ePreface (NT)\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction (NT)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Anthony Forge on art, 1960-1990\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction to Primitive Art and Society 1973a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Three Kamanggabi figures from the Arambak people of the Sepik district 1960a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Notes on Eastern Abelam designs painted on paper, New Guinea 1960b\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Paint, a magical substance. 1962\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Art and environment in the Sepik. 1965\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The Abelam artist. 1967\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Style and meaning in Sepik Art. 1973b\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The problem of meaning in art. Exploring the visual art of Oceania. 1979\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Learning to see in New Guinea. 1970\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 The power of culture and the culture of power. 1990\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Undated introduction to the proceedings from the second Wenner-Gren conference on Sepik Culture History 1986, Mijas, Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: On Forge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Anthony Forge and Alfred Bühler: From Field Collecting to Friendship \u003cbr\u003eChristian Kaufmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Style and meaning: Abelam art through Yolngu eyes\u003cbr\u003e Howard Morphy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Anthony Forge and Innovation: perspectives from Vanuatu Lissant Bolton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 The Problem of Agency in Art\u003cbr\u003e Ludovic Coupaye\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 Looking back, Abelam art and some of Forge’s theses from a 2015 perspective\u003cbr\u003e Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin \u003cbr\u003e17. Communicating with Anthony Forge Michael O’Hanlon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Forge's collections (Basel, NY, UCSD)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sidestone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058624381168,"sku":"9789088904462","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789088904462_p0.jpg?v=1763671542","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789088904462","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}