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 Levi-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.