1st Edition
The Trouble With Art An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism
Introduction: The Trouble with Art in Anthropology
Roger Sansi and Jonas Tinius
Part I: Philistinism
1 The Philistine Trap: A Para-Ethnography of the Trouble with an Art Centre in Barcelona
Roger Sansi
2 "What Has Theatre Ever Done for Us?": Traditions of Antitheatricality
Jonas Tinius
3 Both Sides Now: Ambiguity in Art and Anthropology
Eleana Yalouri
Part II: The Contemporary
4 “We’re Saving a Way of Life”: Indigenous Australian Acrylic Painting and its Troubles with the Categories of Art and Value
Fred Myers
5 Longing for the Contemporary of Art
Thomas Fillitz
6 When Multiplicity is not Enough: Questioning Global Art and an Approach to Other Genealogies and Co-design
Giuliana Borea
Part III: Assemblages
7 Co-ethnographers in the Storm: Investigating Post-socialist Decline with Contemporary Artists
Francisco Martínez
8 An Enduring Interval: The Artwork as a Re-assembling
Kiven Strohm
9 Parasitic Projects and the Politics of Research-Creation
Jennifer Clarke
10 Texture of Nothing
Marina Peterson and Jesse Weaver Shipley
Biography
Roger Sansi is a professor of anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was founding co-convenor (with Jonas Tinius) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
Jonas Tinius is a scientific coordinator and postdoctoral researcher in cultural anthropology on the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism at Saarland University. He was founding co-convenor (with Roger Sansi) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
