Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: Index of Art Sales Catalogs, 1981-1985: Main index, January 5, 1981-October 6, 1984
Author: Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Archeology of Violence, new edition
Author: Pierre ClastresPublisher: Semiotext(e)
ISBN: 9781584350934
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in “primitive societies.” The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.—from the Archeology of Violence Anthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. The posthumous publication in French of Archeology of Violence in 1980 gathered together Clastres's final groundbreaking essays and the opening chapters of the book he had begun before his death in 1977 at the age of 43. Elaborating upon the conclusions of such earlier works as Society Against the State, in these essays Clastres critiques his former mentor, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and devastatingly rejects the orthodoxy of Marxist anthropology and other Western interpretive models of “primitive societies.” Discarding the traditional anthropological understanding of war among South American Indians as arising from a scarcity of resources, Clastres instead identifies violence among these peoples as a deliberate means to territorial segmentation and the avoidance of a State formation. In their refusal to separate the political from the social, and in their careful control of their tribal chiefs—who are rendered weak so as to remain dependent on the communities they represent—the “savages” Clastres presents prove to be shrewd political minds who resist in advance any attempt at “globalization.”The essays in this, Clastres's final book, cover subjects ranging from ethnocide and shamanism to “primitive” power and economy, and are as vibrant and engaging as they were thirty years ago. This new edition—which includes an introduction by Eduardo Viverios de Castro—holds even more relevance for readers in today's an era of malaise and globalization.
Objects and Others
Author: George W. StockingPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299103234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. Objects and Others, the third volume, focuses on a number of questions relating to the history of museums and material culture studies: the interaction of museum arrangement and anthropological theory; the tension between anthropological research and popular education; the contribution of museum ethnography to aesthetic practice; the relationship of humanistic and anthropological culture, and of ethnic artifact and fine art; and, more generally, the representation of culture in material objects. As the first work to cover the development of museum anthropology since the mid-nineteenth century, it will be of great interest and value not only to anthropologist, museologists, and historians of science and the social sciences, but also to those interested in "primitive" art and its reception in the Western world.
Gauguin
Author: Jean LeymariePublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) came late to painting, after two previous careers, first as a seaman, then as a stockbrocker. A romantic, a primitive, a symbolist, a born rebel and flamboyant personality, he stands at the crossroads of modern painting, summing up in his life's work the crucial transition from Impressionism to abstraction. He had no art school training. What we did have was an idea and a dream. His genius is usually considered in terms of his painting. This book offers the rare treat of a selection of watercolors, gouaches, pastels, pen-and-ink and charcoal drawings, monotypes, zincograph and woodcuts, together with pages from "Noa Noa", Gauguin's illustrated account of his stay in Tahiti. In many ways these works are more revealing than his paintings, as they allowed the artist a spontaneity and intimacy that painting, by the very nature of his technique, could not. -- From publisher's description.
French books in print, anglais
Author: ElectrePublisher:
ISBN: 9782765408475
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2148
Book Description
The Planetarium
Author: Nathalie SarrautePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of view, Sarraute focuses below the surface, on the emotional lives of the characters in a way that surpasses even Virginia Woolf. Always deeply engaging, The Planetarium reveals the deep disparity between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us.
The Archaeology of the Lower Tapajós Valley, Brazil
Author: Helen Constance PalmataryPublisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Contents: Geographical notes; Historical notes; Tapajo civilization; Archaeological sites; The archaeology: Pottery, and Stone; Stylistic Characteristics of Tapajo ceramics; Correlation chart; Summary; Appendix and Collection references; Bibliography. Black and white plates. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Revue bibliographique de sinologie
Author: A Socialist Empire
Author: Louis BaudinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781614271536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
2011 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Many social scientists have attempted to lump the unique Inca society into modern political and economic categories. Louis Baudin argued that Incan society was socialistic. He claimed that the ayllu system is what classified the Inca as a system of state socialism. Baudin defines state socialism as being based on the idea of the regulative action of a central power in social relations. According to Baudin, the idea of private property in Europe had been in existence for centuries, but no such idea existed at the times of the Incas. He claims, that society in Peru rested on a foundation of collective ownership which, to a certain extent, facilitated its establishment, because the effacement of the individual within a group prepared him to allow himself to be absorbed. Baudin argued that the higher ranking Incas tried, and succeeded to an extent, to force a degree of uniformity on the common Inca. The Inca were forced to dress similarly, eat the same food, practice the same religion, and speak the same language, Quechua.