Re-Creating Anthropology

<p>This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of the interactions between sociality matter and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts how it is put to work and how in its embodied and material forms it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans’ varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality time and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity. </p>