
Between Art and Anthropology
Contemporary Ethnographic Practice
- 224 pages
- English
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Between Art and Anthropology
Contemporary Ethnographic Practice
About this book
Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice. Artists and anthropologists share a set of common practices that raise similar ethical issues, which the authors explore in depth for the first time. The book presents a strong argument for encouraging artists and anthropologists to learn directly from each other's practices 'in the field'. It goes beyond the so-called 'ethnographic turn' of much contemporary art and the 'crisis of representation' in anthropology, in productively exploring the implications of the new anthropology of the senses, and ethical issues, for future art-anthropology collaborations. The contributors to this exciting volume consider the work of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Suzanne Lacy, Marcus Coates, Cameron Jamie, and Mohini Chandra. With cutting-edge essays from a range of key thinkers such as acclaimed art critic Lucy R. Lippard, and distinguished anthropologists George E. Marcus and Steve Feld, Between Art and Anthropology will be essential reading for students, artists and scholars across a number of fields.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Between Art and Anthropology
- 2 Farther Afield
- 3 The Artist as Shaman: The Work of Joseph Beuys and Marcus Coates
- 4 Hearing Faces, Seeing Voices: Sound Art, Experimentalism and the Ethnographic Gaze
- 5 In the Thick of It: Notes on Observation and Context
- 6 Fieldwork as Artistic Practice
- 7 Affinities: Fieldwork in Anthropology Today and the Ethnographic in Artwork
- 8 Show and Tell: Weaving a Basket of Knowledge
- 9 Tracing Histories
- 10 Collaborative Migrations: Contemporary Art in/as Anthropology
- 11 Making Art Ethnography: Painting, War and Ethnographic Practice
- 12 Cultural Knowledge on Display: Chinese and Haudenosaunee Fieldnotes
- 13 Making Do: The Materials of Art and Anthropology
- Notes
- Index