期》（2006）。
 
Book Description
The anthropology of art in China includes studies of popular arts among the Han in both rural and urban settings, and of folk arts among minority peoples. The country is currently experiencing rapid social change and aesthetic values are being transformed. Chinese scholars have both an exciting range of dramatic case studies to present and their own distinctive theories to offer on these processes. This volume is the first to present an overview of the anthropology of art in China to researchers in the English-speaking world. The essays are written by leading Chinese professors in the fields of visual art, dance, music and art theory.
内容摘要
中国艺术人类学研究领域广阔，涵盖汉族城乡艺术及少数民族民间艺术。中国正历经剧烈的社会变迁时期，故所崇尚的美学价值也随之发生变迁。中国学者正身处当下社会变迁进程及历史洪流之中，他们通过如此丰富多彩的田野及个案，向世界贡献他们独特的理论与思想。该书是第一本向英语世界读者展现中国艺术人类学概况的英文书籍，文集的学者均为中国视觉艺术、舞蹈、音乐及艺术理论领域的先锋学者，他们向世界人类学领域展现了当代中国艺术人类学的丰富思想。
 
目录CONTENTS 
Institutional Affiliations of Authors . ........................................................ vii
Chapter One . ............................................................................................... 1
Introduction 
Robert Layton
Chapter Two . ............................................................................................ 26
On the Construction of Art Anthropology in China
Professor Fang Lili
Chapter Three . .......................................................................................... 72
Back to Life: On the Development of Anthropology of Art as a Discipline Professors He Ming and Hong Ying
Translator: Ying Hong (School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University）
Chapter Four . ............................................................................................ 91
Arts Initiative, Choice of Perspective and Cultural Thinking: 
Research Perspectives and Procedures in the Anthropology
of Art and Ethnomusicology 
Professor Yang Minkang
Translator: Jiang Shu (Department of Music, the University of Sheffield, UK)
Chapter Five . .......................................................................................... 111
Mental Illness and Music-Dance Therapy: Anthropological Analysis
of the Mongolian Andai Dance 
Professor Se Yin
Translator: Wang Jing (Inner Mongolia Normal University)
Chapter Six . ............................................................................................ 124
Folk Rites and Customs: Nurturing the Cultural Space of Traditional Music Artistry
Professor Xiang Yang
Translator: Professor Zhang Jingfan (Southwest University, China)
Chapter Seven . ........................................................................................ 153
Experience Close to Home and Reflection Close to One’s Self: Approaches to Urban Music