The Trouble With Art: An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism

Author:   Roger Sansi ,  Jonas Tinius
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Pages:   202
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
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The Trouble With Art: An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism


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Author:   Roger Sansi ,  Jonas Tinius
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032255156


ISBN 10:   1032255153
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction: The Trouble with Art in Anthropology Roger Sansi and Jonas Tinius Part I: Philistinism 1 The Philistine Trap: A Para-Ethnography of the Trouble with an Art Centre in Barcelona Roger Sansi 2 ""What Has Theatre Ever Done for Us?"": Traditions of Anti-theatricality Jonas Tinius 3 Both Sides Now: Ambiguity in Art and Anthropology Eleana Yalouri Part 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 Myers 5 Longing for the Contemporary of Art Thomas Fillitz 6 When Multiplicity is not Enough: Questioning Global Art and an Approach to Other Genealogies and Co-design Giuliana Borea Part III: Assemblages 7 Co-ethnographers in the Storm: Investigating Post-socialist Decline with Contemporary Artists Francisco Martínez 8 An Enduring Interval: The Artwork as a Re-assembling Kiven Strohm 9 Parasitic Projects and the Politics of Research-Creation Jennifer Clarke 10 Texture of Nothing Marina Peterson and Jesse Weaver Shipley

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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).

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