acknowledgments viii
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Acknowledgments viii
About the Authors x
The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and
Contemporary Practice 1
Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins
Part I Foundations and Framing the Discipline 33
1 Primitive Art 39
Franz Boas
2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America 56
Claude Le´vi-Strauss
3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art 74
William Fagg
4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art 78
Gregory Bateson
5 Tikopia Art and Society 91
Raymond Firth
6 The Abelam Artist 109
Anthony Forge
Part II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts 123
7 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction 129
William Rubin
8 Defective Affinities: ‘‘Primitivism’’ in 20th Century Art 147
Arthur C.