Context: One of the central problems in the anthropology of art concerns the universality of 'art' as a cultural phenomenon. Several anthropologists have noted that the Western categories of 'painting', 'sculpture', or 'literature', conceived as independent artistic activities, do not exist, or exist in a significantly different form, in most non-Western contexts. To surmount this difficulty, anthropologists of art have focused on formal features in objects which, without exclusively being 'artistic', have certain evident 'aesthetic' qualities. Boas' Primitive Art, Claude Lévi-Strauss' The Way of the Masks (1982) or Geertz's 'Art as Cultural System' (1983) are some examples in this trend to transform the anthropology of 'art' into an anthropology of culturally specific 'aesthetics'.

Question: What is a cultural phenomenon? 
Answer: art

Question: What have several anthropologists noted about Western artistic endeavors and their place in non-Western contexts?
Answer: do not exist

Question: What formal features in objects do anthropologists of art focus on?
Answer: evident 'aesthetic' qualities

Question: When was Art as Cultural System penned?
Answer: 1983

Question: What is the trend to transform the anthropology of 'art' into an anthropology of?
Answer: culturally specific 'aesthetics'

Question: What is a central problem of the study of art?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What categories of art do not exixt in most Wester contests?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did Boas write The Way of the Masks?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What have anthropologists triet to turn the anthropology of culturally specific aesthetics into?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did Greetz write Primitive Art?
Answer: Unanswerable