Locating Cultural Creativity

Author : John Liep
Publisher : Anthropology, Culture and Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locating Cultural Creativity written by John Liep and published by Anthropology, Culture and Society. This book was released on 2001-02-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics in ethnology and anthropology are the contributors to this collection of essays edited by Liep (anthropology, U. of Copenhagen). Topics include youth subcultures in Europe, experimental theater in Brazil, mythology among the Pukapukan of Polynesia, the evolution of football and polo in Argentina, Algerian rai music, popular culture and the use of pharmaceuticals in Uganda, and kula exchange in the Trobriand Islands. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John Liep
Publisher : Anthropology, Culture and Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locating Cultural Creativity written by John Liep and published by Anthropology, Culture and Society. This book was released on 2001-02-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics in ethnology and anthropology are the contributors to this collection of essays edited by Liep (anthropology, U. of Copenhagen). Topics include youth subcultures in Europe, experimental theater in Brazil, mythology among the Pukapukan of Polynesia, the evolution of football and polo in Argentina, Algerian rai music, popular culture and the use of pharmaceuticals in Uganda, and kula exchange in the Trobriand Islands. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robert Baron
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617031070
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creolization as Cultural Creativity written by Robert Baron and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial creole societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a universal process that can occur anywhere cultures come into contact. An extraordinary number of cultures from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the southern United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Réunion, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Suriname, Jamaica, and Sierra Leone are discussed in these essays. Drawing from the disciplines of folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, history, and material culture studies, essayists address theoretical dimensions of creolization and present in-depth field studies. Topics include adaptations of the Gombe drum over the course of its migration from Jamaica to West Africa; uses of “ritual piracy” involved in the appropriation of Catholic symbols by Puerto Rican brujos; the subversion of official culture and authority through playful and combative use of “creole talk” in Argentine literature and verbal arts; the mislabeling and trivialization (“toy blindness”) of objects appropriated by African Americans in the American South; the strategic use of creole techniques among storytellers within the islands of the Indian Ocean; and the creolized character of New Orleans and its music. In the introductory essay the editors address both local and universal dimensions of creolization and argue for the centrality of its expressive manifestations for creolization scholarship.

Author : Andy Crouch
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514005778
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture Making written by Andy Crouch and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book Award winner Publishers Weekly's best books The only way to change culture is to create culture. Most of the time, we just consume or copy culture. But that is not enough. We must also do more than condemn or critique it. The only way to change it is to create it. For too long, Christians have had an insufficient view of culture and have waged misguided "culture wars." But Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. Culture is what we make of the world, both in making cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us. In this expanded edition of his award-winning book Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works, the dynamics of cultural change, and tools for cultivating culture. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus, and the call to the church. With a conversation between Crouch and Tish Harrison Warren as the new afterword, this expanded edition addresses the current landscape and forges a way for the future of culture making. Enter into it with guided questions for reflection and discussion for a deeper experience.

Author : S. Luckman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283580
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locating Cultural Work written by S. Luckman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences of rural, regional and remotely located creative practitioners, and how this sits within local economies and communities.

Author : E. Salter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505201
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance written by E. Salter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks. It explores inheritance strategies, personal possessions, attitudes to commemoration after death, the daily fashioning of identity and the interactions between imagination and daily life.

Author : John L. Jackson Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226390017
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Black written by John L. Jackson Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's urban neighborhoods are full of young would-be emcees who aspire to "keep it real" and restaurants like Sylvia's famous soul food eatery that offer a taste of "authentic" black culture. In these and other venues, authenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. But in Real Black, John L. Jackson Jr. proposes a new model for thinking about these issues--racial sincerity. Jackson argues that authenticity caricatures identity as something imposed on people, imprisoning them within stereotypes--turning them into racial objects and inanimate things, instead of living, breathing human beings. Contending that such assumptions deny people agency--not to mention humanity--in their search for identity, Jackson counterposes sincerity, an internal and more productive analytical model for thinking about race. Moving in and around Harlem and Brooklyn, Jackson offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world--including tales of name-changing hip-hop emcees, book-vending numerologists, urban conspiracy theorists, corrupt police officers, mixed-race neo-Nazis, and high-school gospel choirs forbidden to catch the Holy Ghost. Enlisting "Anthroman," his cape-crusading critical alter ego, Jackson records and retells these interconnected sagas in virtuosic detail and, in the process, shows us how race is defined and debated, imposed and confounded every single day.

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323684
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Cultural Improvisation written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 relationship 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.

Author : Brian J. Hracs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000457591
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Creativity and Economy written by Brian J. Hracs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book nuances our understanding of the contemporary creative economy by engaging with a set of three key tensions which emerged over the course of eight European Colloquiums on Culture, Creativity and Economy (CCE): 1) the tension between individual and collaborative creative practices, 2) the tension between tradition and innovation, and 3) the tension between isolated and interconnected spaces of creativity. Rather than focusing on specific processes, such as production, industries or locations, the tensions acknowledge and engage with the messy and restless nature of the creative economy. Individual chapters offer insights into poorly understood practices, locations and contexts such as co-working spaces in Berlin and rural Spain, creative businesses in Leicester and the role and importance of cultural intermediaries in creative economies within Africa. Others examine the nature of trans-local cultural flows, the evolving "field" of fashion, and the implications of social media and crowdfunding platforms. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals researching the creative economy, as well as specific cultural and creative industries, across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Kirin Narayan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640756X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Creativity written by Kirin Narayan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by anthropologist Kirin Narayana thoughtful exploration of Kangra women s singing over the past thirty yearsis part ethnography, part travelogue, part musical discovery, part poetry and poetry translation, and three parts memoir. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns drawn in the courtyard outside a home or clothes meticulously stitched, well-crafted songs identify a woman as smart, adept, and skilledand so are a source of status. Kangra singers speak of singing as enriching their lives; the well-being generated by shared songs brings feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, solace, peacefulness, even good health and recovery from illness. The concept Narayan keeps finding herself returning to, however, is creativitythe everyday creativity that brings well-being. In this book, the second in our new Big Issues in Music series, Narayan beautifully draws out the particulars of everyday creativity in women s singing in Kangra, as well as giving readers the more general gift of a new way of thinking of creativityin music and the arts, in crafts, and in everyday life."