SOSANT 4400 Litteraturseminar
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Pensum, seminargruppe "Art, Appropriation, Materiality:New Approaches"
This course will address recent discussions on the construction of authenticity, the relation between between ‘original’ and ‘copy’, and more generally, of how ‘cultures’ are generated (Kapferer & Hobart), and change. We will explore these issues in relation to art (Marcus & Myers, Schneider) and material culture (Knappett, Henare et al.). In particular, we will focus on theoretical models of appropriation (Schneider), creativity (Hallam & Ingold), agency in relation to artefacts, or ‘things’ (Gell, Henare et al., Knappett). Much of this research has focused on visual and performing arts (Schneider’s study of artists in Argentina), and material culture more generally, but insights from this discussion can also be applied to any kind of social and cultural authenticity construction (identity). In addition, for anthropologists doing research in this area poses the epistemological challenge of how to represent their sensorially rich findings, as forms of embodied knowledge and visual practice beyond traditional forms of writing (Gunn, Schneider & Wright).
We will have lectures, discussions based on readings, and student presentations. Students are advised to read the indicated literature before each session.
Pensumbok
@ Schneider, Arnd 2006. Appropriation as Practice:Art and Identity in Argentina. New York: Palgrave. 225pp. 225 pages
Kompendium
Gell, A: "The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art" i Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory, 1998. pp 1-11 (11 pages).
Gunn, W: "Making ‘Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks’: An Introduction" i Wendy Gunn (ed.): Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks: Challenging the Boundaries between Descriptions and Processes of Describing, 2009. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, pp. 1-35 (35 pages).
Henare, A., Holbraad, M. & S. Wastell: "Introduction: Thinking through things" i Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell (eds.): Thinking through things: Theorising artifacts ethnographically, 2007. London: Routledge. pp. 1-31 (31 pages).
Ingold, T. and E. Hallam: "Creativity and Cultural Improvisation: An Introduction" i Tim Ingold and Elizabeth Hallam (eds.): Creativity and Cultural Improvisation, 2007. Oxford: Berg, pp. 1-24 (24 pages).
Kapferer, B. and A. Hobart: "Introduction. The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction" i Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart (eds.): Aesthetics in Performance, 2005. Oxford. Berghahn, pp.1-22 (22 pages).
Knappett, C: "Introduction + Animacy, Agency and Personhood (chapters 1-2)" i Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 2005. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp.1-34 ( 34 pages).
Marcus, G. and F. Myers: "The Traffic in Art and Culture: An Introduction" i George Marcus and Fred Myers (eds.): The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology, 1995. Berkeley: University of California Press,.pp.1-51 (51 pages).
Schneider, A: "Unfinished Dialogues: Notes towards an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology" i Jay Ruby and Marcus Banks (eds.): Made to be Seen: Histories of Visual Anthropology, 2011. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 108-135 ( 27 pages).
Schneider, A: "Appropriations" i Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright (eds.): Contemporary Art and Anthropology, 2006. Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 29 -51, 197-202 (28 pages).
Schneider, A. and C. Wright: "Between Art and Anthropology" i Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright (eds.): Between Art and Anthropology, 2010. Oxford: Berg, pp. 1-21, 163-67 (25 pages).
Schneider, A. and C. Wright: "The Challenge of Practice" i Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright (eds.): Contemporary Art and Anthropology, 2006. Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 1-27, 191-197 (33 pages).