School of American Research advanced seminar series
Essays from an advanced seminar held at the School of American Research, Nov. 3-7, 1996
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index
Money is no object: materiality, desire, and modernity in an Indonesian society / Webb Keane -- Alienable gifts and inalienable commodities / Daniel Miller -- Elusive property: the personification of Mexican national sovereignty / Claudio Lomnitz -- Appropriation/appreciation: settler modernism in Australia and New Zealand / Nicholas Thomas -- The wizards of Oz: nation, state, and the production of aboriginal fine art / Fred R. Myers -- Rights of passage: on the liminal identity of art in the border zone / Christopher B. Steiner -- The object of translation: notes on "art" and autonomy in a postcolonial context / Annie E. Coombes -- Reflections / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Art and material culture: a conversation with Annette Weiner / Fred R. Myers and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett