Preface and acknowledgments / Brandon D. Lundy -- Disciplined aesthetics : fashioning art and anthropology / Brandon D. Lundy -- part I. Textual art : divergent narratives. Art as distraction : rocking the farm / Daniel W. Ingersoll and Kathleen Butler Ingersoll ; A memoir of an other / Robert C. Philen ; Pocahontas and Rebecca : two tales of a captive / Margaret Williamson Huber -- part II. Art valuation : the creativity/conventionality dialectic. Mirror dance : tourists, artists, and first people heritage in Botswana / Jessica Stephenson ; A world of difference : unity and differentiation among ceramicists in Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru / Jennifer A. Vogt ; Defining art in the Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival / Rachel Syka ; Thomas Kinkade : money, class, and the aesthetic economy / Susan Falls -- part III. Critical art : new ways of seeing. Style and configuration in prehistoric iconography / Vernon James Knight Jr. ; Race and rhythm in rock and roll / Hector Qirko ; Does our being there change what we come to study? / Lindsey King -- pt. 4. Art and anthropology in our classrooms and colleges. Arts integration as critical pedagogy / Elizabeth A. Sheehan ; The art of teaching anthropology : examples from biological anthropology / Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, Laura D. Lund, and Marilyn R. London ; The art of anthropology at a college in crisis : exploring some effects of neoliberalism on higher education / Vincent H. Melomo -- About the contributors