Between Matter and Method Encounters In Anthropology and Art [Hardcover]

Building on the lively exchange between anthropology and art that has emerged in recent years,Between Matter and Methodmakes 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.

Gretchen Bakke, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada

Marina Peterson, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, USA

Acknowledgements
This is an Introduction (Natasha Myers, York University, Canada)

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Formless Matters, a User's Guide(Gretchen Bakke, MCGill University, Canada and Marina Peterson, University of Texas, USA)

1. 'Labyrinth of Linkages' ??? Cinema, Anthropology, and the Essayistic Impulse(Rachel Thompson, Harvard University, USA)
2. Mattering Compositions(Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas, USA)
3. On Misanthropology (punk, art, species-hate),(Shane Greene, Indiana University, USA)
4. Notes Toward Critical Ethnographic Scores: Anthropology and Improvisation Training in a Breached World(Joe Dumit, University of California, USA)
5. Becoming Selí