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Creativity and cultural improvisation / edited by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold.

Contributor(s): Hallam, Elizabeth, 1967- | Ingold, Tim, 1948-
Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2007.Description: xx, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781845205263; 184520526XISSN: 0066-9679
Contents:
Creativity and cultural improvisation: an introduction / Tim Ingold and Elizabeth Hallam; Improvisation and the art of making things stick / Karin Barber; Structure, innovation and agency in pattern construction: the Kolam of southern India / Amar S. Mall; Creating or performing words?: observations on contemporary Japanese calligraphy / Fuyubi Nakamura; Creativity, subjectivity and the dynamic of possessive individualism / James Leach; Locating authorship: creativity and borrowing in the writing of ethnography and the production of anthropological knowledge / Elizabeth Cory-Pearce; Revolution as a convention: rebellion and political change in Kabylia / Judith Scheele; 'You knit me together in my mother's womb': English Baptists and assisted procreation / Jeanette Edwards; Performing the world: agency, anticipation and creativity / Kirsten Hastrup; 'Tradition and the individual talent': T. S. Eliot for anthropologists / Felicia Hughes-Freeland; Back to the future: temporality, narrative and the ageing self / Cathrine Degnen; From documenting culture to experimenting with cultural phenomena: using fine art pedagogies with visual anthropology students / Amanda Ravetz; Creativity in advertising, fiction and ethnography / Robey Callahan and Trevor Stack; (Re)constructing the field through sound: actor-networks, ethnographic representation and 'Radio Elicitation' in south-western Uganda / Richard Vokes; A world without anthropology / Clara Mafra
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Closed Stacks H6/KF [ASSOCIATION-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L77901
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creativity and cultural improvisation: an introduction / Tim Ingold and Elizabeth Hallam; Improvisation and the art of making things stick / Karin Barber; Structure, innovation and agency in pattern construction: the Kolam of southern India / Amar S. Mall; Creating or performing words?: observations on contemporary Japanese calligraphy / Fuyubi Nakamura; Creativity, subjectivity and the dynamic of possessive individualism / James Leach; Locating authorship: creativity and borrowing in the writing of ethnography and the production of anthropological knowledge / Elizabeth Cory-Pearce; Revolution as a convention: rebellion and political change in Kabylia / Judith Scheele; 'You knit me together in my mother's womb': English Baptists and assisted procreation / Jeanette Edwards; Performing the world: agency, anticipation and creativity / Kirsten Hastrup; 'Tradition and the individual talent': T. S. Eliot for anthropologists / Felicia Hughes-Freeland; Back to the future: temporality, narrative and the ageing self / Cathrine Degnen; From documenting culture to experimenting with cultural phenomena: using fine art pedagogies with visual anthropology students / Amanda Ravetz; Creativity in advertising, fiction and ethnography / Robey Callahan and Trevor Stack; (Re)constructing the field through sound: actor-networks, ethnographic representation and 'Radio Elicitation' in south-western Uganda / Richard Vokes; A world without anthropology / Clara Mafra