Overview

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.

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Author:   Roger Sansi ,  Jonas Tinius
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781032223919

ISBN 10:   103222391
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   31 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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