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Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution.
List of contents
Introduction: The Trouble with Art in Anthropology
Roger Sansi and Jonas TiniusPart I: Philistinism 1 The Philistine Trap: A Para-Ethnography of the Trouble with an Art Centre in Barcelona
Roger Sansi2 "What Has Theatre Ever Done for Us?": Traditions of Anti-theatricality
Jonas Tinius3 Both Sides Now: Ambiguity in Art and Anthropology
Eleana YalouriPart II: The Contemporary 4 "We're Saving a Way of Life": Indigenous Australian Acrylic Painting and its Troubles with the Categories of Art and Value
Fred Myers5 Longing for the Contemporary of Art
Thomas Fillitz6 When Multiplicity is not Enough: Questioning Global Art and an Approach to Other Genealogies and Co-design
Giuliana BoreaPart III: Assemblages7 Co-ethnographers in the Storm: Investigating Post-socialist Decline with Contemporary Artists
Francisco Martínez8 An Enduring Interval: The Artwork as a Re-assembling
Kiven Strohm9 Parasitic Projects and the Politics of Research-Creation
Jennifer Clarke10 Texture of Nothing
Marina Peterson and Jesse Weaver Shipley
About the author
Roger Sansi is a professor of anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was founding co-convenor (with Jonas Tinius) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
Jonas Tinius is a scientific coordinator and postdoctoral researcher in cultural anthropology on the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism
at Saarland University. He was founding co-convenor (with Roger Sansi) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
Summary
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution.
