Ebook: Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art

"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"--Publisher's description.;This is an introduction, or, What is happening? / Natasha Myers -- Formless matters : a user's guide / Gretchen Bakke, Marina Peterson -- Labyrinth of linkages : cinema, anthropology, and the essayistic impulse / Rachel Thompson -- Mattering compositions / Kathleen Stewart -- On misanthropology (punk, art, species-hate) / Shane Greene -- Notes toward critical ethnographic scores : anthropology and improvisation training in a breached world / Joe Dumit -- Becoming sensor in sentient worlds : a more-than-natural history of a black oak savannah / Natasha Myers -- Art, design, and ethical forms of ethnographic intervention / Keith M. Murphy -- The recursivity of the gift in art and anthropology / Roger Sansi -- Another world in this world / Stuart McLean [and others] -- A report from the archives of the Monument to Eternal Return : Comgar / Craig Campbell -- Wind matters / Marina Peterson -- The comparative method : a novella / Gretchen Bakke -- Audible observatories : notes of performances / Lina Dib -- This is an index / Shane Greene -- Blubberbomb / Stuart McLean -- This is a title / Gretchen Bakke, Marina Peterson.