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Contributors explore the interconnectedness of culture and creativity in an increasingly hybrid world

Table of Contents
Contributors

Introduction by John Liep

Acknowledgments

Part I: CREATIVITY IN ACTION AND ANALYSIS
1. Creative Arguments of Images in Culture, and the Charnel House of Conventionality by James Fernandez
2. Othello's Dance: Cultural Creativity and Human Agency by Kirsten Hastrup
3. The Iron Cage of Creativity. An Exploration by Jonathan Friedman
4. Wondering about Wutu by Robert Borofsky
5. Celebrating Creativity: On the Slanting of a Concept by Orvar Löfgren
6. The Construction of Authenticity: The Case of Subcultures by Rolf Lindner

Part II: LOCALIZED CREATIVE PROCESSES
7. Nationalism, Football and Polo: Tradition and Creolization in the Making of Modern Argentina by Eduardo Archetti
8. The 'Playing' of Music in a State of Crisis: Gender and Raï Music in Algeria by Marc Schade-Poulsen
9. Creative Commoditization: the Social Life of Pharmaceuticals by Susan Reynolds Whyte
10. Escaping Cultures: the Paradox of Cultural Creativity by David Parkin
11. Recontextualizing Tradition: 'Religion', 'State' and 'Tradition' as Co-existing Modes of Sociality Among the Northern Lio of Indonesia by Signe Howell
12. Kula and Kabisawali: Contexts of Creativity in the Trobriand Islands by John Liep

Index

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/02/2001
      ISBN13: 9780745317021, 978-0745317021
      ISBN10: 0745317022

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contributors explore the interconnectedness of culture and creativity in an increasingly hybrid world

      Table of Contents
      Contributors

      Introduction by John Liep

      Acknowledgments

      Part I: CREATIVITY IN ACTION AND ANALYSIS
      1. Creative Arguments of Images in Culture, and the Charnel House of Conventionality by James Fernandez
      2. Othello's Dance: Cultural Creativity and Human Agency by Kirsten Hastrup
      3. The Iron Cage of Creativity. An Exploration by Jonathan Friedman
      4. Wondering about Wutu by Robert Borofsky
      5. Celebrating Creativity: On the Slanting of a Concept by Orvar Löfgren
      6. The Construction of Authenticity: The Case of Subcultures by Rolf Lindner

      Part II: LOCALIZED CREATIVE PROCESSES
      7. Nationalism, Football and Polo: Tradition and Creolization in the Making of Modern Argentina by Eduardo Archetti
      8. The 'Playing' of Music in a State of Crisis: Gender and Raï Music in Algeria by Marc Schade-Poulsen
      9. Creative Commoditization: the Social Life of Pharmaceuticals by Susan Reynolds Whyte
      10. Escaping Cultures: the Paradox of Cultural Creativity by David Parkin
      11. Recontextualizing Tradition: 'Religion', 'State' and 'Tradition' as Co-existing Modes of Sociality Among the Northern Lio of Indonesia by Signe Howell
      12. Kula and Kabisawali: Contexts of Creativity in the Trobriand Islands by John Liep

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