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Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory

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1999

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The paper develops an anthropology of art by proposing the Art Nexus theory, examining the index’s origination, involution, critique, and its links to distributed personhood, style, and culture. The authors conclude by presenting an Extended Mind Bibliography Index. Foreword 1.

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Foreword 1. The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art 2. The Theory of the Art Nexus 3. The Art Nexus and the Index 4. The Involution of the Index in the Art Nexus 5. The Origination of the Index 6. The Critique of the Index 7. The Distributed Person 8. Style and Culture 9. Conclusion: The Extended Mind Bibliography Index