The Anthropologist as Curator
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The Anthropologist as Curator

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Anthropologist as Curator

About this book

Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anthropology risk disappearing as a specific discipline within the general model of the curatorial? The Anthropologist as Curator collects together the research of international scholars working at the intersection of anthropology and contemporary art in order to explore these questions. The essays in the book challenge what it means to do ethnographic work, as well as the very definition of the discipline of anthropology in confrontation with the model of the curatorial. The contributors examine these ideas from a variety of angles, and the book includes perspectives from anthropologists who have set up their own exhibitions; those who have conducted fieldwork on the arts, including participatory practices, digital images and sound; and contributors who are currently working in a curatorial capacity at a museum. With case studies from the USA, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, India and Japan, the book represents an international perspective and is relevant to students and scholars of anthropology, contemporary art, museum studies, curatorial studies and heritage studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Figures
  5. Contributors
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction: anthropology and curation through the looking glass
  7. Chapter 2: Curatorial designs: Act II
  8. Chapter 3: The recursivity of the curatorial
  9. Chapter 4: Whose stories about Africa? Reflexivity and public dialogue at the Royal Ontario Museum
  10. Chapter 5: Facing the ā€˜curatorial turnā€™: anthropological ethnography, exhibitions and collecting practices
  11. Chapter 6: Ethnographic Terminalia: co-curation and the role of the anecdote in practice
  12. Chapter 7: Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space
  13. Chapter 8: From Of, to With, to And? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology
  14. Chapter 9: Curating the intermural: graffiti in the museum 2008ā€“18
  15. Chapter 10: The curator, the anthropologist: ā€˜presentialismā€™ and open-ended enquiry in process
  16. Chapter 11: Between automation and agency: curatorial challenges in new terrains of digital/visual research
  17. Chapter 12: Anthropological sound curation: from listening to curating
  18. Index