In this Book
Creativity/Anthropology
Book
2018
Published by:
Cornell University Press
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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.
Table of Contents


Part I: Creative Individuals in Cultural Context
pp. 70-99

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View 4. At Home, No Womens Are Storytellers: Ceramic Creativity and the Politics of Discourse in Cochiti Pueblo
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pp. 100-130
Part II: The Creation of Ethnography from Experience
pp. 153-183

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View 7. "The One Who Writes Us": Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin
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pp. 184-210

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View 8. The Return of the Mexican Ballad: Américo Paredes and His Anthropological Text as Persuasive Political Performances
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Part III: Collective Creativity
pp. 253-269
pp. 270-295
ISBN | 9781501726040 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9780801422553, 9781501726033, 9781501728020 |
DOI | 10.1353/book.58040![]() |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 1057676868 |
Pages | 368 |
Launched on MUSE | 2018-04-06 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |
Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |