Creativity and Cultural Improvisation

Table of Contents

Creativity and Cultural Improvisation: An Introduction --Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
• Improvisation and the Art of Making Things Stick--Karin Barber, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham
• I. Art, Intellect and the Attribution of Creative Agency
• Section Introduction--Tim Ingold, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
• Design, Innovation and Agency in Pattern Construction--Amar Mall, Department of Anthropology, University College London
• Creating or Performing Words Visually--Fuyubi Nakamura, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
• Creativity, Subjectivity and the Dynamic of Possessive Individualism--James Leach, King's College, University of Cambridge
• II. Creative Appropriations and Institutional Contexts
• Section Introduction --Melissa Demian, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, and Sari Wastell, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London
• Creating Ethnography: Differing Notions of Creativity in Anthropological Knowledge Production, a Maori/European Example--Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London
• Just Like the Greek Polis: Creativity, Authenticity and Political Legitimacy in Kabylia--Judith Scheele, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
• 'You Knit me in my Mother's Womb': Creativity and Creation in English Baptist Understandings of Assisted and Assisting Conception--Jeanette Edwards, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
• III. Creativity and the Passage of Time: History, Tradition and the Life-Course
• Section Introduction--Sharon Macdonald, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, and Eric Hirsch, Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University
• Tradition and the Individual Talent: T.S. Eliot for Anthropologists--Felicia Hughes-Freeland, School of Social Sciences, University Wales, Swansea
• Back to the Future: Temporality, Narrative and the Ageing Self--Catherine Degnen, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle
• Performing the World: The Imaginative Link between Action and History--Kirsten Hastrup, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
• IV. The Creativity of Anthropological Scholarship
• Section introduction--Mark Harris, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews and Clara Mafra, Anthropology, State University of Rio de Janeiro
• From Documenting Culture to Experimenting with Cultural Phenomena: Using Fine Art
• Pedagogies with Visual Anthropology Students--Amanda Ravetz, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Creativity in Anthropology and Fiction Writing--Trevor Stack, Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen, and Robey Callahan, St Austell, Cornwall
• 'Radio Elicitation': New Directions in Radio Research--Richard Vokes, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Epilogue
• A World Without Anthropology--Clara Mafra, Anthropology, State University of Rio de Janeiro