Beschreibung:
Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them.
Contents: Jeremy MacClancy, Anthropology, Art and Contest -- Maruska Svasek, Power, Identity and Style: Defining Self and Other through Ghanaian Art -- Barbara Saunders, Contested Ethnie in two Kwakiutl Museums -- A. David Napier, Losing One's Marbles: Cultural Property and Indigenous Thought -- Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Art, Argument and Anger on the Northwest Coast -- Jeremy MacClancy, Negotiating 'Basque Art' -- Ian Fowler, Tribal and Palatine Arts of the Cameroons Grassfields: Elements for a 'Traditional' Regional Identity -- Murray Satov, Catalogues, Collectors, Curators: The Tribal Art Market and Anthropology