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Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art

Gretchen Bakke (Editor)

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Building on the lively exchange between anthropology and art that has emerged in recent years, Between Matter and Method makes a bold and creative contribution to this rapidly growing field. Taking an expansive approach to the arts, it finds commonalities in approaches that engage with visual artifacts, sound, performance, improvisation, literature, dance, theater, and design. The book questions current disciplinary boundaries and offers a new model grounded in a shared methodology for interdisciplinary encounter between art and anthropology.

Gretchen Bakke and Marina Peterson have gathered together anthropologists whose work is notable for engaging the arts and creative practice in conceptually rigorous and methodologically innovative ways, including Kathleen Stewart, Keith Murphy, Natasha Myers, Stuart McLean, Craig Campbell, and Roger Sansi. Essays span the globe from Indonesia, West Virginia and Los Angeles in the United States, to the Orkney Islands in the UK, and Russia and Spain.

250 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 14, 2017

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July 5, 2018

Wow. I don't even know how to describe this book. I was a History of Art and Visual Culture major and this book sounded right up my alley. But this was such a confusing book and more like a compilation of poetry than anything else. I don't understand, what a disappointment.