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There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, examines the relation between creativity and the perception and passage of time, and reviews the creativity and improvisational quality of anthropological scholarship itself. Individual essays examine how the concept of creativity has changed in the history of modern social theory, and question its applicability as a term of cross-cultural analysis. The contributors highlight the collaborative and political dimensions of creativity and thus challenge the idea that creativity arises only from individual talent and expression.
List of Illustrations p. ix List of Contributors p. xiii Preface p. xix Creativity and Cultural Improvisation: An Introduction p. 1 Improvisation and the Art of Making Things Stick p. 25 Modes of Creativity in Life and Art Introduction p. 45 Structure, Innovation and Agency in Pattern Construction: The Kolam of Southern India p. 55 Creating or Performing Words? Observations on Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy p. 79 Creativity, Subjectivity and the Dynamic of Possessive Individualism p. 99 Creative Appropriations and Institutional Contexts Introduction p. 119 Locating Authorship: Creativity and Borrowing in the Writing of Ethnography and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge p. 127 Revolution as a Convention: Rebellion and Political Change in Kabylia p. 151 'You knit me together in my mother's womb': English Baptists and Assisted Procreation p. 167 Creativity and the Passage of Time: History, Tradition and the Life-course Introduction p. 185 Performing the World: Agency, Anticipation and Creativity p. 193 'Tradition and the individual talent': T.S. Eliot for Anthropologists p. 207 Back to the Future: Temporality, Narrative and the Ageing Self p. 223 The Creativity of Anthropological Scholarship Introduction p. 239 From Documenting Culture to Experimenting with Cultural Phenomena: Using Fine Art Pedagogies with Visual Anthropology Students p. 247 Creativity in Advertising, Fiction and Ethnography p. 267 (Re)constructing the Field through Sound: Actor-networks, Ethnographic Representation and 'Radio Elicitation' in South-western Uganda p. 285 Epilogue A World Without Anthropology p. 307 Index p. 321