‘Marvels of everyday vision’: the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping Nilotes: Jeremy Coote
‘Marvels of everyday vision’: the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping Nilotes: Jeremy Coote
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“日常视觉的奇迹”：美学人类学和养牛尼罗特人：杰里米·库特
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2012
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这篇文章是基于这样一种信念，即对艺术和艺术对象的过度关注阻碍了视觉美学人类学研究的进步。苏丹南部饲养尼罗特人的牛不制作艺术品，也没有视觉艺术的传统，然而，声称它们没有视觉审美是荒谬的。在这种情况下，分析者被迫关注日常艺术概念不适用的生活领域，实际上，关注我们所有人，而不仅仅是我们中间的艺术家和艺术评论家，体验和享受的‘日常视觉的奇迹’(Gombrich，1977：275)。我的论点是，这种范围广泛的分析将对不同社会的美学产生更令人满意的解释--即使是那些拥有艺术传统和艺术品的社会。考虑到这一点，我将苏丹南部养牛的尼罗特人作为美学人类学的一种测试案例。
This essay is written out of a conviction that progress in the anthropological study of visual aesthetics has been hampered by an undue concentration on art and art objects. The cattle keeping Nilotes of the Southern Sudan make no art objects and have no traditions of visual art, yet it would be absurd to claim that they have no visual aesthetic. In such a case as this, the analyst is forced to attend to areas of life to which everyday concepts of art do not apply, to attend, indeed, to ‘the marvels of everyday vision’ (Gombrich, 1977: 275) which we all, not just the artists and art critics amongst us, experience and delight in. It is my contention that such wide-ranging analyses will produce more satisfactory accounts of the aesthetics of different societies—even of those with art traditions and art objects. With this in mind, then, I present the cattle-keeping Nilotes of the Southern Sudan as a sort of test-case for the anthropology of aesthetics.