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Creativity/Anthropology / ed. by Renato Rosaldo, Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The Anthropology of Contemporary IssuesPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) : 12 halftones, 3 chartsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501726033
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.35 23
LOC classification:
  • GN453
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction : Creativity in Anthropology -- PART I Creative Individuals in Cultural Context -- 1. Ceferino Suárez: A Village Versifier -- 2. On Nose Cutters , Gurus, and Storytellers -- 3. The Creative Individual in the World of the !Kung San -- 4. At Home, No Womens Are Storytellers : Ceramic Creativity and the Politics of Discourse in Cochiti Pueblo -- 5. "Riding the Horse of Gaps": A Meratus Woman's Spiritual Expression -- PART II The Creation of Ethnography from Experience -- 6. The Absence of Others, the Presence of Texts -- 7. "The One Who Writes Us": Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin -- 8. The Return of the Mexican Ballad: America Paredes and His Anthropological Text as Persuasive Political Performances -- 9. Pilgrimage to Meron : Inner and Outer Peregrinations -- PART III Collective Creativity -- 10. Bar Yohai, Mystic: The Creative Persona and His Pilgrimage -- 11. Ilongot Visiting: Social Grace and the Rhythms of Everyday Life -- 12. Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality : A New Guinea Example -- 13. Ritual, Violence , and Creativity -- Epilogue: Creative Persona and the Problem of Authenticity -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study of ethnography itself. Contributors include Barbara A. Babcock, Edward M. Bruner, James W. Fernandez, Don Handelman, Smadar Lavie, José E. Limon, Barbara Myerhoff, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo, Richard Schechner, Edward L. Schieffelin, Marjorie Shostak, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Edith Turner.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction : Creativity in Anthropology -- PART I Creative Individuals in Cultural Context -- 1. Ceferino Suárez: A Village Versifier -- 2. On Nose Cutters , Gurus, and Storytellers -- 3. The Creative Individual in the World of the !Kung San -- 4. At Home, No Womens Are Storytellers : Ceramic Creativity and the Politics of Discourse in Cochiti Pueblo -- 5. "Riding the Horse of Gaps": A Meratus Woman's Spiritual Expression -- PART II The Creation of Ethnography from Experience -- 6. The Absence of Others, the Presence of Texts -- 7. "The One Who Writes Us": Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin -- 8. The Return of the Mexican Ballad: America Paredes and His Anthropological Text as Persuasive Political Performances -- 9. Pilgrimage to Meron : Inner and Outer Peregrinations -- PART III Collective Creativity -- 10. Bar Yohai, Mystic: The Creative Persona and His Pilgrimage -- 11. Ilongot Visiting: Social Grace and the Rhythms of Everyday Life -- 12. Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality : A New Guinea Example -- 13. Ritual, Violence , and Creativity -- Epilogue: Creative Persona and the Problem of Authenticity -- Contributors -- Index

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Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study of ethnography itself. Contributors include Barbara A. Babcock, Edward M. Bruner, James W. Fernandez, Don Handelman, Smadar Lavie, José E. Limon, Barbara Myerhoff, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo, Richard Schechner, Edward L. Schieffelin, Marjorie Shostak, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Edith Turner.

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