Anthropology of the Visual, Part I
Market From Here, 1997
This week I’m asking you to read some material that will help to contextualize two streams of work that will be useful for our intermedia inquiry:
- Visual Anthropology
- Anthropology of Art
Please read the following articles for our class on September 8th.
- Hockings, Paul. Ed. 1995. Principles of Visual Anthropology. 2nd ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Preface, Forward, and Introduction
- Bateson, Gregory. 1995. Style, grace, and information in primitive art. In The Anthropology of Art: A Reader.
- Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1995. Split representation in the art of Asia and America. In The Anthropology of Art: A Reader.
You can download them as a zipped file here: 19 mb zipped folder
For the September 8th class we’ll also be explicitly discussing the “Market from Here” installation (from our first readings, Calzadilla and Marcus conversation). Please also bring materials and proposals for you intermedia project.
Also, please go to the Tumblr.com website and register for an account. We’ll talk about this in class but it would be great if you’d all already figured out a little bit about it and maybe given it a little trial run.
-Craig
Market from Here