Drawing into being: The trap as a diagram for ecological exchange between art and anthropology

This article aims to further Alfred Gell's assertion (‘Vogel's net: Traps as artworks and artworks as traps', Journal of Material Culture, 1996) that traps be considered as functional artworks and vice versa, and builds on this foundation for an even bolder approach to practical excha...

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Main Author: Spriggs, Hermione (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2019]
In: Journal of material culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 453-472
RelBib Classification:ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Drawing
B Ontology
B Perspectivism
B trapping
B Species
B Gell
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