Overview

In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.

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Author:   Maruška Svašek ,  Birgit Meyer
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.662kg
ISBN:  

9781785331817

ISBN 10:   1785331817
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   01 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement Maruska Svasek Chapter 1. African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design Barbara Plankensteiner Chapter 2. Heads against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity Tereza Kuldova Chapter 3. The Social Life of Kottan Baskets Kala Shreen Chapter 4. Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India Amit Desai Chapter 5. Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation Arnd Schneider Chapter 6. Positioned Creativity Oivind Fuglerud Chapter 7. 'We paint our way and the Christian way together' Fiona Magowan and Maria Oien Chapter 8. Undoing Absence through Things Maruska Svasek Chapter 9. 'The Eye Likes It' Stine Bruland Chapter 10. Narratives, Movements, Objects Joao Rickli Chapter 11. The Art of Imitation Rhoda Woets Afterword Birgit Meyer Index

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The editors' and contributors' point about the relative and collaborative nature of creativity is well made in the volume, and the ethnographic examples shine interesting light on diverse corners of culture while pinpointing a number of shared issues. * Anthropology Review Database This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on appropriation and the aesthetics of change. Conceiving creativity as process rather than outcome is the key argument of the book whose contributors discuss the argument in numerous ways and case studies. * Peter Probst, Tufts University

This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on appropriation and the aesthetics of change. Conceiving creativity as process rather than outcome is the key argument of the book whose contributors discuss the argument in numerous ways and case studies * Peter Probst, Tufts University

Author Information

Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University, Belfast. Major publications include Mixed Emotions. Anthropology of Feeling (Berg 2005) Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012). She is co-editor of the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement.

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