Creativity/AnthropologySmadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo 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. |
Contents
On Nose Cutters Gurus and Storytellers | |
The Creative Individual in the World of the Kung | |
Ceramic Creativity and | |
A Meratus Womans Spiritual Expression | |
The Absence of Others the Presence of Texts | |
Political Allegory and the Experience | |
Américo Paredes and | |
Inner and Outer Peregrinations | |
The Creative Persona and His Pilgrimage | |
Social Grace and the Rhythms of Everyday Life | |
A New Guinea | |
Ritual Violence and Creativity | |
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