Creativity and Cultural Improvisation

Abstract

1. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation: An Introduction Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen 2. 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 3. Design, Innovation and Agency in Pattern Construction Amar Mall, Department of Anthropology, University College London 4. Creating or Performing Words Visually Fuyubi Nakamura, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford 5.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 6. Creating Ethnography: Differing Notions of Creativity in Anthropological Knowledge Production, a Maori/European Example Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London 7. Just Like the Greek Polis: Creativity, Authenticity and Political Legitimacy in Kabylia Judith Scheele, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford 8. '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 9. Tradition and the Individual Talent: T.S. Eliot for Anthropologists Felicia Hughes-Freeland, School of Social Sciences, University Wales, Swansea 10. Back to the Future: Temporality, Narrative and the Ageing Self Catherine Degnen, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle 11. 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 12. From Documenting Culture to Experimenting with Cultural Phenomena: Using Fine Art Pedagogies with Visual Anthropology Students Amanda Ravetz, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University 13. Creativity in Anthropology and Fiction Writing Trevor Stack, Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen, and Robey Callahan, St Austell, Cornwall 14. 'Radio Elicitation': New Directions in Radio Research Richard Vokes, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Epilogue 15. A World Without Anthropology Clara Mafra, Anthropology, State University of Rio de Janeiro