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Evolutionist approaches

  • Argue aesthetics is a human universal → a biological drive to mark certain objects or behaviours as out of the ordinary.

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Cultural relativism

  • Geertz & Boas

  • Argues art is always embedded in a specific symbolic system. "Art" must be read like a text, within its cultural context

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Art and Agency

  • Rejects aesthetics as a form of anthropological analysis

  • Treats art objects as social agents that do things - a statue is not just beautiful, it intimidates or traps attention

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Material culture studies

  • Focuses on how objects carry social meanings

  • Appadurai’s idea of the Social Life of Things