San Antonio College Library

One of the most significant developments in the art world of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s has been the rise to prominence of art made by minority cultures. Race, Sex, and Gender examines the controversial challenges these groups present to today's artists and critics. Works by African-Americans, feminists, homosexuals, and Latino-Hispanics - once considered marginal - have come to transform contemporary art. As this so-called minority art has moved...

In this momentous work of scholarship, Edwin N. Wilmsen overturns one of the central concepts of anthropologic theory: the idea of remote hunter-gatherer societies untouched by contemporary political and economic forces. His subject is the San-speaking peoples of southern Africa, the so-called Bushmen, whom social scientists and bureaucrats have cited as the quintessential example of pristine prehistoric society. Marshaling ethnographic, archival,...

"This volume focuses on the symbols, meaning, and significance of art in native, or indigenous, cultures. Illustrated with more than 500 line drawings, color plates, and maps, this reference work provides the most pertinent information available on the art of Africa, Oceania, and native North America." "Entries on each geographical area discuss the art of the region and, through cross-references, lead the reader to additional geographical subdivisions...