| 书目名称 | The Messages of Tourist Art | | 副标题 | An African Semiotic | | 编辑 | Bennetta Jules-Rosette | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Topics in Contemporary Semiotics | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning to artists in the traditional societies, who are seduced into a type of whoredom: unfeeling production of false beauty for money. The arts remain problematic for the social sciences. Sociology textbooks treat the arts as subordinate reflections of social forces, norms, or groups. An thropology textbooks conventionally isolate the arts in a separate chapter, failing to integrate them with analyses of kinship, economics, politics, language, or biology. Textbooks reflect the guiding theories, which emphasize such factors as modes of production, patterns of thought, or biological and normative con straints, but their authors have not adequately formulated the aesthetic dimen sion. One may compare the theoretical status of the arts to that of religion. After the contributions by Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, the sociology of religion is well established, but where is a Durkheim or Weber for the sociology of | | 出版日期 | Book 1984 | | 关键词 | Max Weber; Third World; art; culture; language; politics; sociology; sociology of religion; tradition | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1827-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4757-1829-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4757-1827-0 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984 |
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