Between Art and Anthropology

Arnd Schneider is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Christopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments1 Between Art and AnthropologyArnd Schneider (University of Oslo) & Chris Wright (Goldsmiths College)2 Farther AfieldLucy R. Lippard (independent scholar)3 The Artist as Shaman: the work of Joseph Beuys and Marcus CoatesVictoria Walters (University of Ulster)4 Hearing Faces, Seeing Voices: Sound Art, Experimentalism and the Ethnographic GazeJohn Wynne (University of the Arts/London College of Communication)5 In the Thick of It: Notes on Observation and ContextChristopher Wright (Goldsmiths College)6 Fieldwork Tatsuo Inagaki (independent artist)7 Affinities: Fieldwork in Anthropology Today and the Ethnographic in Artwork George E. Marcus (University of California, Irvine)8 Show and Tell: Weaving a Basket of KnowledgeAmiria Salmond (University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and Rosanna Raymond (artist) 9 Tracing HistoriesMohini Chandra (artist) & Rebecca Empson (Cambridge University)10 Collaborative Migrations: Contemporary Art in/as Anthropology Steven Feld, in conversation with Virginia Ryan11 Making Art Ethnography: Painting, War and Ethnographic PracticeSusan Ossman (Goldsmiths College, University of London)12 Cultural Knowledge on Display: Chinese and Haudenosaunee FieldnotesMorgan Perkins (SUNY Potsdam)13 Making Do: the Materials of Art and AnthropologyAnna Grimshaw (Emory University), Elspeth Owen, Amanda Ravetz (Manchester Metropolitan University) Notes

Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice. Between Art and Anthropology will be essential reading for students, artists and scholars across a number of fields. visualanthropology.net Many of the authors in this edited volume provide excellent examples of the work of artists who are using fieldwork in an approach that links them to anthropology. [...] This is a worthwhile volume to add to the growing literature on art and anthropology. Anthropological Forum