Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 44, Autumn 2003

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Editorial: Anthropology and Primitivism
    Francesco Pellizzi

    Sculptures of Barkcloth and Wood from Rapa Nui: Symbolic Continuities and Polynesian Affinities
    Adrienne L. Kaeppler

    On the Meaning of Burekalou, a.k.a. "Model Spirit House" from Fiji
    Marc Rochette

    Daimon and Nemesis
    Davide Stimilli

    Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog: of Rilke, Cezanne, and the Animalisation of Painting
    Filippo Fimiani

    Image Scrimmage
    Ilya Bernstein

    Who's Afraid of Prometheus' Challenge? The Postmodern Aesthetization of Subjectivity's Political Agency and the Artificial
    Carlo de Rita

    Astuteness and Limits of Penitence
    Francesco Paolo Adorno

    Lectures and Discussions

    La Phénoménologie du Miracle
    Andre Scrima
    Edited and with a Preface by Viad Alexandrescu

    The Gender of the Trout
    Mary Douglas

    Medusa and the Real
    Hal Foster

    Right Listening and a New Type of Human Being
    Igi

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Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He is also Chair of the University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Columbia University, and Senior Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University.