Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves

2019/04/10 1673

Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves. An Ethiopian Travelogue Manuel Joao Ramos Sean Kingston Publishing A lost sketch book on a Portuguese castle rampart left Manuel João Ramos bereft, and the impulse to draw deserted him – but his first trip to Ethiopia reawakened this pleasure, so long denied. Drawing obsessively and free from care, […]Continue Reading

Alternative Art and Anthropology

2018/02/13 5091

Alternative Art and Anthropology Arnd Schneider Bloomsbury, 2017 Website While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream Continue Reading

Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening. An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan

2017/11/28 4301

Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan Wei Hsiu Tung – Edited by Gerald Cipriani 2013, Rowman & Littlefield Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice […]Continue Reading

Making Homes. Ethnography and Design

2017/09/26 3699

Making Homes. Ethnography and Design Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder MacKley, Roxana Morosanu, Val Mitchell Bloomsbury web site Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design […]Continue Reading

Nolliwood. L’industria video nigeriana e le sue diramazioni transnazionali

2016/09/26 2598

Alessandro Jedlowski Nolliwood. L’industria video nigeriana e le sue diramazioni transnazionali Napoli, Liguori Editore, 2016 Il volume ricostruisce la genesi e lo sviluppo dell’industria video nigeriana detta Nollywood, un sistema che produce 1000-1500 film ogni anno e li distribuisce direttamente in formato home-video. I video di Nollywood circolano in quasi tutta Continue Reading

Digital Materialities. Design and Anthropology

2016/06/28 2580

Digital Materialities. Design and Anthropology Edited by Sarah Pink, Elisenda Ardèvol, Dèbora Lanzeni Bloomsbury, 2016 Publisher web site As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to […]Continue Reading

The African Photographic Archive. Research and Curatorial Strategies

2016/06/28 2813

Christopher Morton, Darren Newbury (Eds) The African Photographic Archive. Research and Curatorial Strategies Bloomsbury, 2016 Publisher Website African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the Continue Reading

Art, Anthropology and the Gift

2016/06/28 3488

Roger Sansi Art, Anthropology and the Gift Bloosmbury, 2014 Publisher Website In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the two subjects through practice, theory and Continue Reading

Micromuseology. An Analysis of Small Independent Museums

2016/06/28 1962

Fiona Candlin Micromuseology. An Analysis of Small Independent Museums Bloomsbury, 2015 Publisher Website How would our understanding of museums change if we used the Vintage Wireless Museum or the Museum of Witchcraft as examples – rather than the British Museum or the Louvre? Although there are thousands of small, independent, single-subject museums in the UK, […]Continue Reading

Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast

2016/05/25 3583

Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding people according to a set of criteria defined by the society. Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and Continue Reading