Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory Alfred Gell
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Nordsyrisch-südanatolisch Reliefs. Art and agency: an anthropological theory. Brown (Eds.), The origins of music (pp. It presents what is the first fundamental theory for an anthropology of art. This book changes the very basis of the way art has been viewed in the human sciences. Because Gell's is an anthropological theory of art, the stress is on the art nexus, the network of social relations in which art works are embedded; that is, on agency. But it just so happens that at the time I was reading Alfred Gell's Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory (Clarendon: 1998), which offered some insight. Although Gell believes agency to be a major component in the discussion of the anthropology of art, he does not consider objects to be agents in the same primary manner as humans. Eine archäologisch-historische Untersuchung. In this book, Alfred Gell formulates a visual art anthropological theory which focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and reception. Gibbon songs and human music from an evolutionary perspective.