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.
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Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art by Esther Pasztory. ISBN 029270691X. Published by University of Texas Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
