Thinking with things: toward a new vision of art

Part one. Introduction to part one

1. Things

2. Thinking with things

3. Levels of social integration

4. Insistence

5. Superpositions

6. Impersonation

7. Enhancement

8. Apotheosis

9. Iconoclasm/aestheticism

10. Media/marginalization

11. Transition

Bibliography to part one

Part two. Introduction to part two : confessions of a formalist

12. Still invisible : the problems of the aesthetics of abstraction for pre-Columbian art and its implications for other cultures

13. Identity and difference : the uses and meanings of ethnic styles

14. The portrait and the mask : invention and translation

15. Aesthetics and pre-Columbian art

16. Andean aesthetics

17. Three Aztec masks of the God Xipe

18. Shamanism and North American Indian art

Index.