Fred R Myers

Biographic Data

ID77212
NAMEFred R Myers
GIVEN NAMESFred R
FAMILY NAMEMyers
SIGNATUREMYERS F R
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS1144
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX13

  • Six Paintings from Papunya

    F Myers, Fred R Myers et al.BOOKSix Paintings from Papunya2024

  • Emotions and the Self A Theory of Personhood and Political Order Among Pintupi Aborigines

    F Myers, Fred R MyersCHAPTERThe Emotions2024

    Between 1973 and 1975 I did field work with the Pintupi at a settlement called Yayayi, 180 miles west of Alice Springs. 1 At this time, the Pintupi were no longer living a traditional hunting-gathering life in the desert; for the past 40 years, the Pintupi have been drifting eastward from the Gibson Desert homeland, although the majority “came in” the 200–400 miles to European missions or settlements between 1954 and 1966. They were living, then,…

  • Growing Up in Central Australia

    Dennis Brooks, David Brooks et al.BOOKGrowing up in Central Australia2022

    Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across…

  • Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self

    F Myers, Fred R MyersBOOKPintupi Country, Pintupi Self2022Cited by: 305

  • Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers

    Open AccessKarin Zitzewitz, M Ciotti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Material Culture2022

  • Chapter 4. Fathers and Sons, Trajectories of Self

    F Myers, Fred R MyersCHAPTERGrowing up in Central Australia2022

  • Always Ask

    F Myers, Fred R MyersCHAPTERResource Managers2019

    This chapter addresses the relationship between boundaries, band organization, and territoriality through an individual oriented, processual approach to mobility, land use, and land ownership among Pintupi Aborigines of the Gibson Desert in Australia. Here territorial organization is not the division of people into discrete, mobile, permanent "bands." Rather, "bands" are fluctuating, on-the-ground residential groups that differ from "bands" as la…

  • The Anthropology of Art, After the End of Art

    E Kisin, F Myers et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2019Cited by: 3References: 102

    We focus on the anthropology of art from the mid-1980s to the present, a period of disturbance and significant transformation in the field of anthropology. The field can be understood to be responding to the destabilization of the category of "art" itself. Inaugural moments lie in the reaction to the Museum of Modern Art's 1984 exhibition "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art, the increasing crisis of representation, the influence of "postmodernism,"…

  • The Cultural Basis of Politics in Pintupi Life

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R MyersARTICLEMankind2010Cited by: 24References: 7

  • A Broken Code

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R MyersARTICLEMankind2010Cited by: 19References: 10

  • Materiality

    Fred R Myers, Lynn Meskell et al.BOOKMateriality2005

  • Collecting Aboriginal Art in the Australian Nation

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R MyersARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2005Cited by: 1References: 12

    How Aboriginal acrylic painting came to be reframed as “high art” is an interesting ethnohistorical question. Scholars have traced the increasing frequency of the exhibition of Aboriginal Australian acrylic painting and the increasing emphasis on the framework of fine art and contemporary fine art in these exhibitions. Individual artists come prominently into attention, both in the press and also—eventually—with one‐person exhibitions. In this ar…

  • Unsettled Business

    F Myers, Fred R MyersARTICLEVisual Anthropology2004Cited by: 6References: 30

    Acrylic painting in Australian Indigenous communities is one of the sites in which the conundrum of "tradition" is faced. While this painting has particularly challenged the conception of cultural traditions as bounded, its status has also been challenged in terms of authenticity; but I argue that a framework emphasizing culture-making is more productive. This article explores the scandals and rumors that have accompanied the movement of acrylic …

  • Materializing Culture and the New Internationalism

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • After the Fall

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Making a Market

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Postprimitivism

    F Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Practices of Painting

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Truth or Beauty

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • The “Industry”

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Unsettled Business

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Recontextualizations

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • The Aesthetic Function and the Practice of Pintupi Painting

    Open AccessF Myers, Fred R Myers et al.CHAPTERPainting Culture2002

  • Index

    Fred R Myers, Nicholas ThomasCHAPTERPainting Culture2002