Papers by Christopher Steiner
Review: Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, by Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner
The Public Historian, 2000
... Unpacking Culture Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds EDITED BY Ruth B. Phi... more ... Unpacking Culture Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds EDITED BY Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS ...
African Art in Transit
African Arts, 1995
Page 1. AFRICAN ART IN TRANSIT CHRISTOPHER B. STE1NER Page 2. Page 3. African art in transit is a... more Page 1. AFRICAN ART IN TRANSIT CHRISTOPHER B. STE1NER Page 2. Page 3. African art in transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African objects in the international art market today. Based ...
Waiting to Inhale: The Moral
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1998
Anthropological Quarterly, 2002
African Arts, 1987
Communication (1982). Ms. Banta has curated a number of photographic exhibitions at Harvard and i... more Communication (1982). Ms. Banta has curated a number of photographic exhibitions at Harvard and is co-curator, with Curtis M. Hinsley of From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery. She and Prof. Hinsley co-authored, with the assistance of Joan Kathryn O'Donnell, the exhibition catalogue from which the following article is excerpted.
Critical Interventions, 2018
"Museum Censorship"
In The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum, edited by Janet Marstine (Taylor & Francis), 2011
"The Image of Africa and Its Relationship to Commerce"
In Crafting Maya Identity: Contemporary Wood Sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico, edited by Jeff Kowalski (Northern Illinois University Press), 2009
"The Tradition of African Art: Reflections on the Social Life of a Subject"
In Questions of Tradition, edited by Mark Salber Phillips and Gordon Schochet (Univ. of Toronto Press), 2004
"The Taste of Angels in the Art of Darkness: Fashioning the Canon of African Art"
In Art History and Its Institutions, edited by Elizabeth Mansfield (Routledge), 2002
"Art/Anthropology/Museums: Revulsions and Revolutions"
In Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, edited by Jeremy MacClancy (Univ. of Chicago Press), 2002
Anthropological Quarterly 75(2), 2002
"Rights of Passage: On the Liminal Identity of Art in the Border Zone"
In The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture, edited by Fred R. Myers (School of American Research Press), 2001
Connecticut College Magazine (Winter), 2000
"Art, Authenticity, and the Baggage of Cultural Encounter" (with Ruth B. Phillips)
In Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, edited by Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner (Univ. of California Press), 1999
"Authenticity, Repetition, and the Aesthetics of Seriality: The Work of Tourist Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
In Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, edited by Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner (Univ. of California Press), 1999
"Discovering African Art ... Again?"
African Arts 29(4), 1996
"Can the Canon Burst?"
The Art Bulletin 78(2), 1996
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