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""Arts on the Margins of World Encounters" presents original contributions that deal with artworks of differently marginalized people-such as ethnic minorities, refugees, immigrants, disabled people, and descendants of slaves-, a wide variety of art forms-like clay figures, textile, paintings, poems, museum exhibits and theater performances-, and original data based on committed, long-term fieldwork and/or archival research in Brazil, Martinique, Rwanda, India, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The volume develops theoretical approaches inspired by innovative theorists and is based on currently debated analytical categories including the ethnographic turn in contemporary art, polycentric aesthetics, and aesthetic cannibalization, among others. This collection also incorporates fascinating and intriguing contemporary cases, but with solid theoretical arguments and grounds. "Arts on the Margins of World Encounters" will appeal to students at all levels, scholars, and practitioners in arts, aesthetics, anthropology, social inequality, and discrimination, as well as researchers in other fields, including post-colonialism and cultural organizations"--
Anthropology and the arts. --- Marginality, Social. --- Arts and globalization.
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visual anthropology --- photography --- cinema --- arts --- sound --- performance --- Anthropology and the arts --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Arts and anthropology --- Arts
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"La revue « Documents » (1929-1931) a-t-elle encore une actualité ? Les sujets qu’elle aborde participent directement d’une histoire de l’anthropologie européenne qui ne cesse de s’interroger sur ses sources.La revue « Documents » reste pour beaucoup l’insolente revue de Georges Bataille. Relire l’ensemble des articles révèle une problématique négligée : l’écriture de l’objet sculpté. Comment cette écriture s’adosse à une idéologie, comment cette idéologie reconduit des concepts qui touchent à l’origine de l’humanité : archaïque, primitif, évolution… Ces concepts ont une connotation raciale évidente, mais tous les auteurs ne les emploient pas dans le même sens. Relire « Documents » aujourd’hui permet de réintégrer ce « magazine d’art » dans les divisions politiques de l’Europe. On y découvre aussi des ressemblances inattendues entre les langages de l’archéologie et de l’ethnologie, bien que celle-ci semble seule en mesure de se réinventer."
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"In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists within the crucibles of unequal access, geopolitics, the reverberations of past traumas, and emergent new socialities. He outlines how artist-theorists including Entang Wiharso, Sally Smart, Charles Lim, Zai Kuning, and Kiran Kumar speculate on how the world is changing in ways that are attuned to cultivating, repairing, and rethinking the world in the Anthropocene. Their artistic vocabulary not only undoes Western art models and categories; it probes the unfolding future, addresses past trauma, and creates contested, vibrant, and flourishing spaces. Throughout Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, and from Kumar's experimental dance to Kuning's rattan and beeswax ghost ships to Lim's videography of Singapore from the sea, Fischer argues that these artists' theoretical discourses should be privileged over those of the curators, historians, critics, and other gatekeepers who protect and claim art worlds for themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
Anthropology and the arts. --- Arts and society --- Arts, Asian. --- Ethnocentrism in art.
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"In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists within the crucibles of unequal access, geopolitics, the reverberations of past traumas, and emergent new socialities. He outlines how artist-theorists including Entang Wiharso, Sally Smart, Charles Lim, Zai Kuning, and Kiran Kumar speculate on how the world is changing in ways that are attuned to cultivating, repairing, and rethinking the world in the Anthropocene. Their artistic vocabulary not only undoes Western art models and categories; it probes the unfolding future, addresses past trauma, and creates contested, vibrant, and flourishing spaces. Throughout Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, and from Kumar's experimental dance to Kuning's rattan and beeswax ghost ships to Lim's videography of Singapore from the sea, Fischer argues that these artists' theoretical discourses should be privileged over those of the curators, historians, critics, and other gatekeepers who protect and claim art worlds for themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
Anthropology and the arts. --- Arts and society --- Arts, Asian. --- Ethnocentrism in art.
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film --- images --- cinema --- art --- anthropology --- space --- Motion pictures --- Anthropology and the arts --- Motion pictures. --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Arts and anthropology --- Arts --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism
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This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy. Throughout history, Music has occupied a significant place among the disciplines of the Quadrivium, which also include Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy. The captivating bond between these two realms has not only inspired eminent scientists like Kepler, Newton, and Einstein, but has also captured the imagination of NASA and astronauts in modern times. The author delves into various aspects of the intersection between music and astronomy, encompassing everything from ancient cosmological beliefs to groundbreaking discoveries such as the cosmic background radiation and gravitational waves. This enthralling theme has not only stimulated renowned artists like David Bowie and Elton John, but has also served as a muse for movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Within the book, readers will find an extensive photo gallery and a specially curated soundtrack that enhances the reading experience. It caters to a broad audience, appealing to those with a general interest in both music and astronomy, as well as to specialized individuals in either field of study.
Music. --- Music --- Astronomy. --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Mathematics in Music. --- Philosophy of Music. --- Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- Mathematics. --- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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This book is for everyone curious about the Sun and how it has been perceived throughout human history, including the modern scientific view. Beginning with ancient myths and legends, superstitions, art and poetry, the book proceeds to explain the amazing composition of our star, how it produces the heat and light on which all life depends, as well as touching the harvesting of solar energy that is becoming so essential in the modern world. The book is illustrated by the author's own artwork and includes first-hand scientific information provided in interviews with professional astrophysicists.
Sun. --- Art --- Physics --- Astrophysics. --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Solar Physics. --- Art History. --- History of Physics and Astronomy. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- History.
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This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and reveals the ambiguity of the gift in various social and cultural contexts, including those of race, sex, gender, religion, consumption, and literature. Focusing on authors as diverse as Emerson, Kirkland, Child, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Stowe, Holmes, Henry James, Twain, Howells, Wilkins Freeman, and O. Henry as well as lesser-known, obscure, and anonymous authors, Dangerous Giving explores ambivalent relations between dangerous gifts, modern ideology of disinterested giving, and sentimental tradition.
American literature --- American literature. --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- America --- Literature, Modern --- Anthropology and the arts. --- North American Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- Literatures. --- 19th century. --- Arts and anthropology --- Arts --- Literature
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This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow, in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book. Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.
Ethnology. --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Medical anthropology. --- Ethnography. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- Medical Anthropology. --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Arts and anthropology --- Arts --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropological aspects
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