--- title: "2 Wyatt MacGaffey Quotes - Famous Africanist" description: "American Africanist... Browse 2 Wyatt MacGaffey quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-wyatt-macgaffey-99597.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Wyatt MacGaffey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-wyatt-macgaffey-99597.jpg) # Wyatt MacGaffey (1932) Africanist **2** quotes in **3** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Wyatt MacGaffey is an Africanist. ## Quick Facts About Wyatt MacGaffey Born January 8, 1932 Profession Africanist ## About Wyatt MacGaffey American Africanist... ## Quotes by Wyatt MacGaffey > [“For something to become a work of art, a labeling process must take place that requires three participants: an artist who produces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wyatt-macgaffey/for-something-to-become-a-work-of-art-a-labeling-process-must-take/) [Wyatt MacGaffey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wyatt-macgaffey/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/wyatt-macgaffey-99597_art_for-something-to-become-a-work-of-art-a_1362590.jpg) > [“It is characteristic of the ethnocentrism of anthropology that whereas the rationality of claims by African and other primitive diviners to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wyatt-macgaffey/it-is-characteristic-of-the-ethnocentrism-of-anthropology-that/) [Wyatt MacGaffey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wyatt-macgaffey/) [Anthropology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anthropology/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/237/wyatt-macgaffey-99597_taken-for-granted_it-is-characteristic-of-the-ethnocentris_1860506.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wyatt-macgaffey/#itemlist", "name": "Wyatt MacGaffey Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For something to become a work of art, a labeling process must take place that requires three participants: an artist who produces an apt object, a client or public, and a critic or connoisseur who mediates between the artist and the public to assure them of the artness of the thing. If I make a painting, it is not sufficient for the painting to be \"art\" that I consider it so, nor even that you, my friend and neighbor, admire it and hang it on your wall; it must be certified as art by competent authority and exhibited in the institutionally appropriate place, a gallery or museum.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wyatt MacGaffey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wyatt-macgaffey/for-something-to-become-a-work-of-art-a-labeling-process-must-take/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/wyatt-macgaffey-99597_art_for-something-to-become-a-work-of-art-a_1362590.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/wyatt-macgaffey-99597_art_for-something-to-become-a-work-of-art-a_1362590.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/wyatt-macgaffey-99597_art_for-something-to-become-a-work-of-art-a_1362590.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For something to become a work of art, a labeling process must take place that requires three participants…” — Wyatt MacGaffey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is characteristic of the ethnocentrism of anthropology that whereas the rationality of claims by African and other primitive diviners to be able to see what is not visible to the ordinary eye has long seemed to be a proper subject of investigation, the occult powers of our own diviners have been taken for granted. 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