Alfred Gell
Alfred (Antony Francis) Gell (12 June 1945 – 28 January 1997) was a British social anthropologist whose most influential work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual.
Works
- Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries: Umeda Society, Language and Ritual, London: Athlone, 1975.
- The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images, Oxford: Berg, 1992, ix+341 pp.
- Antropologija časa: kulturne konstrukcije časovnih zemljevidov in podob, trans. Tomo Virk, Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2000, 343 pp. Review: Verdir. (Slovenian)
- A antropologia do tempo: construções culturais de mapas e imagens temporais, trans. Vera Joscelyne, Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2014, 327 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- "The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology", in Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics, eds. Jeremy Coote and A. Shelton, Oxford: Clarendon, 1992, pp 40-63; repr. as ch 5 in Gell, The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams, 1999, pp 159-187.
- Wrapping in Images: Tattooing in Polynesia, Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
- "Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps", Journal of Material Culture 1:1, 1996, pp 15-38.
- Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, PDF.
- Umetnost in delovanje: antropološka teorija, trans. Katarina Žakelj and Tomo Virk, Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2006, 343 pp. (Slovenian)
- L'Art et ses agents: une théorie anthropologique, eds. Alexandre Laumonier and Stéphanie Dubois, intro. Maurice Bloch, trans. Olivier Renaut and Sophie Renaut, Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2009, 356 pp. [1] (French)
- Arte y agencia: una teoría antropológica, trans. Ramsés Cabrera, Buenos Aires: SB, 2016, 331 pp. Review: Costa (Caiana). (Spanish)
- The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams, ed. Eric Hirsch, London: Athlone, 1999, ix+294 pp, PDF.
Literature
- Eric Hirsch, "Alfred Gell (1945-1997)", American Anthropologist 101:1, Mar 1999, pp 152-155. Obituary.
- Christopher Pinney, Nicholas Thomas (eds.), Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment, Oxford: Berg, 2001.
- Liana Chua , Mark Elliott (eds.), Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell, New York: Berghahn, 2013, 220 pp.
- Anna Kawalec, Osoba i Nexus: Alfreda Gella antropologiczna teoria sztuki, Lublin: KUL, 2016. (Polish)
