这本书通过从不同的子学科和跨学科角度重新思考社会性、物质和想象力之间的相互作用，为讨论21世纪人类学是什么和应该是什么做出了显著贡献。本书探讨了想象在其社会语境中的作用，它是如何发挥作用的，以及它如何以具体的和物质的形式在实践中发挥作用。这些章节提供了详细的案例研究，包括埃及的电影制作；意大利的藏灵/驱魔；神智学和UFO知识的产生；错误或小故障在公开表演中的作用；人类与环境的不同关系；人类学中的后殖民、时间和危机；以及艺术创造力。
Re-creating Anthropology: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination (Asa Monographs)
This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans’ varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity.
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