Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 47, Spring 2005

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    The contents of this issue are: Editorial, "Socrates' death," by Remo Guidieri; "Antimasque, Pageant: Restoration and Bethlem at Moorfields," by Christine Stevenson; "Picturing Madness in 1905: Giacomo Balla's La Pazza and the cycle The Living," by Christine Poggi; "Quoting Eros: Visual culture, irony and anachronism in Thomas Mann," by Filippo Fimiani; "Cosmos and warfare on a Classic Maya vase," by Oswaldo Chinchilla; "Women and political power: The inclusion and exclusion of noblewomen in Aztec pictorial histories," by Lori Boornazian Diel; "Ancestors and commemoration in Igbo Odo masquerades," by Benjamin Hufbauer and Bess Reed; "Style and the standardization of forms in certain arts of the Sepik," by Romain Chambrin; "The modality of time-maps: Quilting in the Pacific from another point of view," by Susanne Kuechler; Lectures, Documents and Discussions: "Slit drums on Atchin;" an unpublished manuscript by John Layard, edited and with an introduction by Haidy Geismar; "Style and meaning: Abelam art through Yolngu eyes," The 1998 Anthony Forge Lecture, by Howard Morphy; "Vodou in the age of mechanical reproduction," by Donald Cosentino; and "Heterosomatics: Remarks of an historian of women's bodies," by Barbara Duden.

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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.