Chapter-Related Readings

Introduction to non-Western art, with a focus on the visual arts.

Anderson, R.. (1989). Art in Small-Scale Societies.. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

A comparative study of aesthetics in 10 cultures.

Anderson, R.. (1990). Calliope’s Sisters: A Comparative Study of Philosophies of Art.. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Bringing an anthropological perspective to bear on arts in America.

Anderson, R.. (2000). American Muse: Anthropological Excursions into Art and Aesthetics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

An anthology of studies of non-Western art, with a focus on the visual arts.

Anderson, R., and K. Field, eds.. (1993). Art in Small-Scale Societies: Contemporary Readings.. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, no. 23. A consideration of the symbolic basis and nature of prehistoric art.

Conkey, M., O. Soffer, D. Stratmann, and N. Jablonski. (1997). Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol.. San Francisco: .

Useful collection of essays.

Coote, J., and A. Shelton, eds.. (1992). Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics.. New York: Oxford University Press.

Up-to-date introduction.

Hatcher, E. P.. (1999). Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art, 2nd ed.. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

Survey of the major issues, with a focus on visual art.

Layton, R.. (1991). The Anthropology of Art, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press..

Art, society, and the marketing of culture in global perspective.

Marcus, G. E., and F. R. Myers, eds.. (1995). The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Popular culture, art, and society.

Mirzoeff, N.. (1999). An Introduction to Visual Culture.. New York: Routledge.

Focuses on the performing arts and symbols of society.

Napier, A. D.. (1992). Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Classic anthology.

Otten, C. M., ed.. (1971). Anthropology and Art; Readings in Cross-Cultural Aesthetics.. Garden City, NY: American Museum of Natural History.

How Western art and commerce classify, co-opt, and commodify "native" experiences, creations, and products.

Root, D.. (1996). Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference.. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Themes, motifs, and collections of Indian art.

Rushing, W. Jackson, ed.. (1999). Native American Art in the Twentieth Century.. New York: Routledge.

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