Beschreibung
In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with innovation in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.
Autorenportrait
Birgit Meyer(PhD cultural anthropology, 1995) is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. She is co-editor ofMaterial Religion and the Berghahn seriesMaterial Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Recent publications includeAesthetic Formations. Religion, Media and the Senses(ed, Palgrave 2009),Things. Religion and the Question of Materiality (ed with Dick Houtman, Fordham 2012) andSensational Movies. Video Vision and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015).
Inhalt
List of Figures Acknowledgements
Introduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of MovementMaru¨ka Sva¨ek
Chapter 1. African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile DesignBarbara Plankensteiner
Chapter 2. Heads against Hands and Hierarchies of CreativityTereza Kuldova
Chapter 3. The Social Life of Kottan BasketsKala Shreen
Chapter 4. Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, IndiaAmit Desai
Chapter 5. Approximation as Interpretive AppropriationArnd Schneider
Chapter 6. Positioned CreativityØivind Fuglerud
Chapter 7. We paint our way and the Christian way togetherFiona Magowan and Maria Øien
Chapter 8. Undoing Absence through ThingsMaru¨ka Sva¨ek
Chapter 9. The Eye Likes ItStine Bruland
Chapter 10. Narratives, Movements, ObjectsJoão Rickli
Chapter 11. The Art of ImitationRhoda Woets
AfterwordBirgit Meyer
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