Re-Creating Anthropology: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination
David N. Gellner · Dolores P. Martinez
Apr 2022 · Routledge
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This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans’ varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity.
About the author
David N. Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford, UK.
Dolores P. Martinez is Emeritus Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and a Research Affiliate at ISCA, University of Oxford, UK.
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