Anthropology of Oceanic Art 3102-XASO
Syllabus
1. What is Art?
a. a brief survey of the theory of art
b. "primitive art" ? the question of taxonomy: what is "primitive" in "primitive art"?
2. Oceanic Art ? what artefacts could we expect to find in the leading world museums. Some examples from:
a. Melanesia: New Guinea, Vanuatu
b. Polynesia: New Zealand
c. Australia: Aboriginal Australia
3. Oceanic Art ? what will (the most likely) not be found in museums' collection
a. body decoration
b. poetry, the art of oratory, metaphorical and metonimical speech
c. humour, irony of every day communication
d. jewllery in the social context
e. ritual as a "rich text" of cultural imagination
f. creative responses to processes of acculturation\globalisation (cargo cults, christianisation)
4. Rock paintings, paleolitical art: selected examples of continuity in Australia and Melanesia
5. Aboriginal art as reflection of socio-cultural changes
6. Museum collections and international art market
7. Intellectual property law and the question of art ownership
In short, while drawing attention to the beauty and functionality of the art objects on the local scale the Course aims to make it relevant to people brought up within European sensibility who will see these art objects in conection with the artistic and intellectual movements of modernity and post-modernity which influences the way Europeans think and view their lives.
Although the Course could be viewed as an introduction to the vast topic of Oceanic and Australian art and culture it would require familiarity with the anthropological way of investigation and the knowledge of anthropological terminology and main analylitical tools.
Type of course
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