Re-creating anthropology : sociality, matter, and the imagination
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Re-creating anthropology : sociality, matter, and the imagination
(A.S.A. monographs)
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans' varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Social Anthropology as Scepticism, Empathy, and Holism-David N. Gellner
- Part I Time
- 2 '"Not an Airy European Fantasy", or: How (De)Colonization Embeds the Anthropological Imagination-Peter Pels
- 3 Placing Time: Open, Wild, Drift-Caitlin DeSilvey
- 4 Time and Permanence: In an Epoch of the Anachronic-Michael Rowlands
- 5 Crisis, Prophecy, and Ethnography: Living in the Waste Land Then and Now-Ramon Sarro
- Part II Imagination and the Social
- 6 Interactional Glitches, Cooperation, and the Paradox of Public Joint Activities-Alessandro Duranti
- 7 Enskilment and the Emergent Imagination-Iza Kavedzija
- 8 '"She Talks to Angels": Spirit Becomings, Embodied Memories, and Affective Imagination Skills in Catholic Exorcism in Contemporary Italy-Andrea De Antoni
- 9 The Role of Unproved Ideas in the Production of Knowledge: A Case Study-Timothy Jenkins
- 10 The Light of a Piece: An Exploration of Materiality and Creative Practice in a Maine Landscape - Notes on a Film Screening-Anna Grimshaw with Elizabeth Hallam
- Part III Futures
- 11 Describing the Future: Predictability, Uncertainty, and Imponderability-Chihab El Khachab
- 12 Anthropocenic Reconfigurations: Socio-Natures and the Politics of Planetary Health-Melissa Leach
- 13 Psychological Essentialism: An Anchoring for Anthropological Comparison-Rita Astuti
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