随着社会经济文化的发展,艺术已经从最初狭小的象牙塔中走了出来,进入到了大众的视野和生活中来,为生活带来了更加丰富的内容。现代人不再像传统的艺术家那样主张为艺术而艺术,而开始倾向于为生活而艺术,完全摆脱了从前那种自命清高、与世隔绝的状态,开始向社会学、哲学、人类学方向发展。在这样的后现代主义背景下,艺术人类学开始受到越来越多人的关注。本文主要研究的是处在后现代主义背景下的西方艺术人类学。 With the socio-economic and cultural development, art has come out from the narrow ivory tower, has entered the public’s vision and life, has brought more rich content to life. Instead of advocating art for art as traditional artists do, modern people tend to favor art for life and completely get rid of the former state of being despotic and isolated from the past and starting to develop towards sociology, philosophy and anthropology . In this postmodern context, art anthropology began to receive more and more attention. This paper mainly studies Western art anthropology in the context of postmodernism.