ISBN:
978-1-03-213188-7 (hbk)
,
978-1-03-222662-0 (pbk)
,
978-1-00-327361-5 (ebk)
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 227 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs [56]
Keywords:
Anthropologie Ethnographie
;
Holismus
;
Dekolonisation
;
Italien
;
Besessenheit
;
Spiritualität
;
USA
;
Anthropologie, visuelle
;
Kulturgeographie
;
Tagungsbericht
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans' varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. Time -- Part 2. Imagination and the social -- Part 3. Futures -- Index
Note:
"This volume brings together the keynote lectures, plus selected other presentations, from the 2018 ASA conference, held in Oxford, 18-21 September, under the title Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination: Re-Creating Anthropology." (Preface)
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