Prelude: The cogitator/anthropology as Averroism -- The art of cogitation -- Mathias Goeritz/concrete abstractions -- Silvia Gruner/desperate playfulness -- Mounir Fatmi/cerebral compositions -- Patricia Lagarde/a naturalist's blues -- Marine cogitations. "This book focuses on …
"This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology, philosophy, and art. Tarek Elhaik embarks on an inquiry composed of a series of cogitatio…
This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology, philosophy, and art. Tarek Elhaik embarks on an inquiry composed of a series of cogitation…
"This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology, philosophy, and art. Tarek Elhaik embarks on an inquiry composed of a series of cogitatio…
"This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology, philosophy, and art. Tarek Elhaik embarks on an inquiry composed of a series of cogitatio…
"Dioramas are devices on the frontier of various disciplines. Their use developed during the nineteenth century, following reforms aimed at developing the educational dimension of museums. This book examines the anthropological dioramas of two North American museums in the early…
From the 1990s onwards the 'ethgraphic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethgraphy has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptua…
An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary Mexico.
From the 1990s onwards the 'ethgraphic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethgraphy has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptua…
An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary Mexico. From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, a…
"In Art Effects Brazilian anthropologist Carlos Fausto explores the agency of indigenous artifacts and images in order to offer a new understandingof the pragmatics and ontology of ritual contexts"--
"In Art Effects Brazilian anthropologist Carlos Fausto explores the agency of indigenous artifacts and images in order to offer a new understanding of the pragmatics and ontology of ritual contexts"--.