Creativity in Transition

Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University, Belfast. Major publications include Mixed Emotions. Anthropology of Feeling (Berg 2005) Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012). She is co-editor of the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of MovementMaruška SvašekChapter 1. African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile DesignBarbara PlankensteinerChapter 2. Heads against Hands and Hierarchies of CreativityTereza KuldovaChapter 3. The Social Life of Kottan BasketsKala ShreenChapter 4. Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, IndiaAmit DesaiChapter 5. Approximation as Interpretive AppropriationArnd SchneiderChapter 6. Positioned CreativityØivind FuglerudChapter 7. ‘We paint our way and the Christian way together’Fiona Magowan and Maria ØienChapter 8. Undoing Absence through ThingsMaruška SvašekChapter 9. ‘The Eye Likes It’Stine BrulandChapter 10. Narratives, Movements, ObjectsJoão RickliChapter 11. The Art of ImitationRhoda WoetsAfterwordBirgit MeyerIndex

“The editors’ and contributors’ point about the relative and collaborative nature of creativity is well made in the volume, and the ethnographic examples shine interesting light on diverse corners of culture while pinpointing a number of shared issues.” • Anthropology Review Database“This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on appropriation and the aesthetics of change. Conceiving creativity as process rather than outcome is the key argument of the book whose contributors discuss the argument in numerous ways and case studies.” • Peter Probst, Tufts University