Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Politics & Social Sciences

Robert L. Welsch

Luis A. Vivanco

Social Sciences

McGraw-Hill Europe

What is cultural anthropology, and how can it explain--or even help resolve--contemporary human problems? Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco's Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, Third Edition, uses a questions-based approach to teach students how to think anthropologically, helping them view cultural issues and everyday experiences as an anthropologist might. Inspired by the common observation that ninety-nine percent of a good answer is a good question, Cultural Anthropology combines a question-centered pedagogy with the topics typically covered in an introductory course. It emphasizes up front what the discipline of anthropology knows and which issues are in debate, and how a cultural perspective is relevant to understanding social, political, and economic dynamics in the contemporary world. Cultural Anthropology also represents an effort to close the gap between the realities of the discipline today and traditional views that are taught at the introductory level by bringing classic anthropological examples, cases, and analyses to bear on contemporary questions.

Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity

Anthropology

Oxford University Press

The contemporary visual arts of non-Western peoples are increasingly part of a capitalistic, global art world with diverse gatekeepers, tastes, venues, individuation of artists, and hybrid sources of inspiration. In this collection, ethnographic case studies from around the globe are used to examine the contemporary art world, from both local and comparative global perspectives, and span such critical topics concerning visual culture as artistic agency, new art forms and media, arenas of cultural production, and the role of gender in these innovative traditions. What new parameters comprise world art? Each of the articles in Exploring World Art speaks to this theme. They suggest that the intercultural traffic in art has reshaped how indigenous identities—an integral part of cultural production—are formed. The cases illuminate what is actually going on in the production of art and sale of art in a variety of places around the globe. Since anthropologists and art historians have moved away from the study of "primitive" art in a single tribal society, blurring the cultural distinctions of Western and non-Western art, each article highlights a different aspect of the new international processes that give meaning to artworks made in one social context but sold to people in another.

Exploring World Art

Eric Venbrux

Pamela Sheffield Rosi

Sociology

Waveland Press. Inc.

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