As a social anthropologist,Alfred Gell's posthumous work Art and Agencymay be the most thorough reflec-tion on the field of anthropological research since its emergence.The book begins by questioning what art and artistic anthro-pology are,pointing out that past artistic anthropology was constructed on the basis of other theories,and asking whether there exists an anthropology of visual arts.It believes that artistic anthropology is a social science,and as an action,under the capture of"objects",art forms an active relationship network with the a multi-layered internal and external interweav-ing,aiming to find and create a more universal human art research method and original paradigm.At the same time,Gell's radical thoughts also brought criticism and controversy in the academic community,and to reinterpret Gell's academic lega-cy,the richness and multiple values of his thoughts should be considered from the hidden or only implicit influence of the source of Gell's thoughts,the core theories and key themes he proposed.
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