Bunn Anthropology and Beauty

From Aesthetics to Creativity
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-40055-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 502 Seiten

Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The essays invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light, touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through ‘places of outstanding natural beauty’; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bunn, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: BEAUTY AS FORM, NUMBER, GENERATION
1. Quaternions and the Manifold in Oceania. Susanne Küchler
2. Six propositions on beauty. Tim Ingold
3. The beauty of sand-drawing in Vanuatu: kinship and continuity on Paama Island. Craig Lind
PART 2: BEAUTY AS GRACE
Introduction. Stephanie Bunn
4. Of Ossian and the End of the Foolishness. Peter Gow
5. The Gift of Beauty. Marc Higgin
6. With beauty may I walk. Jill D’Alessandro
7. Agency and Beauty: Reflections on Gell’s anthropological theory of art and its critics. Eric Hirsch
PART 3: BEAUTY AND THE SENSES: VISION, SOUND AND HARMONY
Introduction. Stephanie Bunn
8. Infused with Colour. Diana. J. B. Young
9. Aso iyi, aso eye: resplendence in Yoruba prestigious Aso-oke textiles. Eni Bankole-Race

10. 16 years of Favourite Sounds. Peter Cusack
11. The aesthetics of early years musicality. Colwyn Trevarthen and Stephen Malloch

12. Cultivating the Inner Senses expanded. Paul Stoller
PART 4: SKILLFUL AND BEAUTIFUL
Introduction. Stephanie Bunn
13. On Beauty as skill: sensorial apprenticeship and skilled vision. Cristina Grasseni

14. The Aesthetics of Hands-in-craft. Anna Gustafsson
15. Cinematographers’ skilled vision and aesthetic praxis. Cathy Greenhalgh
PART 5: BEAUTY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE
Introduction. Stephanie Bunn
16. The three times of artist Will Maclean. Multiple authors
17. Carbuncles, Eyesores and the Aesthetics of Architecture. Rachel Harkness
18. Beauty, Belonging and Belongings. Cara Krmpotich
19. Practices of ‘being in places’ in regard to the Japanese house. Ray Lucas

PART 6: BEAUTY, THE BODY, PERFORMANCE AND RITUAL

Introduction. Stephanie Bunn
20. Pretty modern: beauty and plastic surgery. Alex Edmonds
21. Beauty in motion: collective creativity in contemporary dance. Caroline Potter
22. Performance spaces, poetics and children with autistic spectrum disorder. Melissa Trimingham
PART 7: BEAUTY, DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
Introduction. Stephanie Bunn
23. Collaborative form(s). Wendy Gunn
24. Fabric Samples: The Beauty-Military Paradigm of Textiles U.S.A. T’ai Smith
25. Engineering as Process. Ian J. Ewart
PART 8: BEAUTY, SOCIALITY AND SYNTHESIS
Introduction. Stephanie Bunn
26. Appropriation, imitation and creation: glass beadwork among Panará people. Elizabeth Ewart
27. Dispersed Beauty. Amanda Ravetz
28. Balance, brightness, and the animal body: the harmony and order of Kyrgyz felt textiles. Stephanie Bunn

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie Bunn is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.