Table of Contents

Fred R. Myers, Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse for Aboriginal Acylic Paintings Steve Feld, From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis:The Discourses and Practices of World Music and World Beat Lynn Hart, Three Walls: Regional Aesthetics and the International Art World Christopher B. Steiner, The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market Molly H. Mullin, The Patronage of Difference: Making Indian Art "Art, Not Ethnology" George E. Marcus, The Power of Contemporary Work in an American Art Tradition to Illuminate its Own Power Relations Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Confusing Pleasures Judith L. Goldstein, The Female Aesthetic Community Nancy Sullivan, Inside Trading: Postmodernism and the Social Drama of Sunflowers in the 1980s Art World Carol S. Vance, Four Essays Hal Foster, The Artist as Ethnographer?

About the Author

George E. Marcus is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and the coeditor (with James Clifford) of Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (California, 1986). Fred R. Myers is Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines (California, 1991).