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Activism, Aesthetic Education, and the Making of Modern German Theatre Open
Chapter 1 unfolds the historical context of two central overarching notions in this book’s narrative: the German Kulturstaat and the country’s Bildungsbürgertum. Combining historical analysis with ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin during th…
State of the Arts Open
This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have resp…
(Ir)reparability Begins in the Body: Towards a Museum of Disrepair Open
This chapter is based on a workshop we conducted with PhD candidatesattending the Summer SchoolRestitution, Reparations, Reparation–Toward aNew Global Society?held at Villa Vigoni, Italy. It offers reflections on the situatedand embodied e…
“Animated Words, Will Accompany My Gestures” Seismographic Choreographies of Difficult Heritage in Museums Open
This chapter offers an ethnographic analysis of two choreographic projects – The Sysmograph (2019) by Pélagie Gbaguidi, which addressed the Venetian “Museo del Manicomio. La follia reclusa” in the context of the Ultrasanity symposium in Ve…
The Anthropologist as Sparring Partner Open
Anthropological fieldwork is a collaborative practice, based and reliant on interactions and relations of trust and exchange. Yet, it is limited and enabled by the openings and closings, the stability and instability of relations between i…
The Anthropologist as Sparring Partner: Instigative Public Fieldwork, Curatorial Collaboration, and German Colonial Heritage Open
Anthropological fieldwork is a collaborative practice, based and reliant on interactions \nand relations of trust and exchange. Yet, it is limited and enabled by the openings \nand closings, the stability and instability of relations betwe…
Across Anthropology Open
Reframing anthropology: contemporary art, curatorial practice, postcolonial activism, and museums\nHow can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology…
Value, Correspondence, and Form: Recalibrating Scales for a Contemporary Anthropology of Art (Epilogue) Open
Reflecting on two sets of analytical trajectories of the articles in this special issue — 'institutions, histories, and spheres of valuation' (Thomas Fillitz and Tamara Schild) and 'immersion, correspondence, and form' (Alex Flynn/Lucy Bel…
Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art, relationality, and creativity. Open
Rationale and context The editors began discussing this special issue in 2014 through a serendipitous encounter. Ruy and Maïté were interested in the possibility of promoting an anthropology of utopia, and simultaneously an anthropology as…
Rehearsing Detachment: Refugee Theatre and Dialectical Fiction Open
This article responds to Nicolas Bourriaud's account of the poetic function of relational art, which for him "consists in re-forming worlds of subjectivization" (2002 [1998]: 104). I challenge and complement his account of how such reformi…