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Celebrating Transgression

Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Cultures
A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping
1. Aufl.

von: Ursula Rao, John Hutnyk
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	01.12.2005
ISBN/EAN:	9781800733978
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	256

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Titelbeschreibung

Transgression is the stock in trade of a certain kind of anthropological sensibility that transforms fieldwork from strict social science to something more engaging. It builds on Koepping’s idea that participation transforms perception and investigates how transgressive practices have triggered the re-theorization of conventional forms of thought and life. It focuses on social practices in various cultural fields including the method and politics of anthropology in order to show how transgressive experiences become relevant for the organisation and understanding of social relations. This book brings key authors in anthropology together to debate and transgress anthropological expectations. Through transgression as method, as discussed here, our understanding of the world is transformed, and anthropology as a discipline becomes dangerous and relevant again.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Klaus Peter Köpping
 <a>Introduction</a> Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk
 PART I: FIELDWORKS
 Chapter 1. Reflexivity Unbound: Shifting Styles of Critical Self-awareness from the Malinowskian Scene of Fieldwork and Writing to the Emergence of Multi-sited Ethnography George Marcus
 Chapter 2. News from the Field: the Experience of Transgression and the Transformation of Knowledge during Research in an Expert-site Ursula Rao
 Chapter 3. Soiled Work and the Artefact Howard Potter
 Chapter 4. Transgression for Transcendence? On the Anthropologist’s (Dis)engagement in the Politics of Meaning Kaori Sugishita
 Chapter 5. Running Out of Tricks: the Experience of Ethnography and the Politics of Culturalism Thomas Reuter
 PART II: PERFORMANCES
 Chapter 6. Transcending Transgression with Transgression: Inheriting Forsaken Souls in Bali Mary Ida Bagus
 Chapter 7. The ‘Dance of Punishment’: Transgression and Punishment in an East Indian Ritual Burkhard Schnepel
 Chapter 8. Divine Play or Subversive Comedy? Reflections on Costuming and Gender at a Hindu Festival Beatrix Hauser
 Chapter 9. Between Meaning and Significance: Reflections on Ritual and Mimesis Alexander Henn
 Chapter 10. Animism on Stage: Tracing Anthropology’s Heritage in Contemporary African Dance in Europe Nadine Sieveking
 Chapter 11. Transgression and the Erotic Vincent Crapanzano
 PART III: INFRINGEMENTS
 Chapter 12. Michel Leiris: Master of Ethnographic Failure Peter Phipps
 Chapter 13. Boundary Confusion in Anthropology and Art: Pablo Picasso and Michel Leiris Judith Weiss
 Chapter 14. The Concatenation of Minds Klaus Peter Buchheit
 Chapter 15. Transgressions of Fieldwork/Filed Works: Method in the Madness John Hutnyk
 Notes on Contributors Index

Autorenportrait

Ursula Rao is Lecturer in Anthropology in the University of Halle, and is now involved in writing about the problem of fieldwork in dispersed and postmodern settings. She has also worked extensively in the field of Religious Anthropology and written Negotiating the Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politics in Contemporary Urban India (2003, Manohar), Kommunalismus in Indien. Eine Darstellung der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion über Hindu-Muslim-Konflikte (2003) and co-editor of Im Rausch des Rituals: Gestaltung und Transformation der Wirklichkeit in körperlicher Performanz (2000), She has further edited a volume on the relevance of performance for cultural change: Kulturelle VerWandlungen. Die Gestaltung sozialer Welten in der Performanz (2005)