College Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ANTH 021D. Anthropology of Art and Aesthetics
This course will familiarize students with the key debates that have shaped the anthropological study of art over the course of the 20th century. After reviewing Franz Boas’s path-breaking studies on Native American design motifs, we will go on to survey studies of indigenous artistic traditions, the controversies ignited by metropolitan exhibitions of primitivist modern art, and theoretical disputes over aesthetic paradigms in the anthropology of art, before posing the question of how anthropology can illuminate and engage contemporary art worlds.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Fall 2015. Fraga.
Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology
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