Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around
the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the
ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural
exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups
reinforce their challenged sense of culture. This pioneering book
breaks with the traditions of the anthropology of art as the
depoliticized study of aesthetics in exotic settings. Transcending
artificial distinctions between the West and the Rest, it examines
the increasingly significant relations among art, identity and
politics in the modern world.
Among the themes investigated by the contributors: how African
painters undermine racist stereotypes yet remain dominated by the
Western art market; the role of anthropology museums in the
perpetuation of the Western market in "tribal art; " and the
internal and external political disputes underlying the
"repatriation" of cultural property.
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