Creativity/Anthropology

Smadar Lavie (Edited by), Kirin Narayan (Edited by), Renato Rosaldo (Edited by)

9781501728020

Paperback / softback, published 15 August 2018

368 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg

Creativity/Anthropology makes a wonderful contribution to our understanding of this complex activity—its processes and products—we call 'creativity.' To read it is to embark on a journey that explores these domains in contemporary and provocative ways.

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.