Locating Cultural Creativity

John Liep is senior lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

• Contributors Introduction by John Liep Acknowledgments Part I: CREATIVITY IN ACTION AND ANALYSIS 1. Creative Arguments of Images in Culture, and the Charnel House of Conventionality by James Fernandez 2. Othello's Dance: Cultural Creativity and Human Agency by Kirsten Hastrup 3. The Iron Cage of Creativity. An Exploration by Jonathan Friedman 4. Wondering about Wutu by Robert Borofsky 5. Celebrating Creativity: On the Slanting of a Concept by Orvar Löfgren 6. The Construction of Authenticity: The Case of Subcultures by Rolf Lindner Part II: LOCALIZED CREATIVE PROCESSES 7. Nationalism, Football and Polo: Tradition and Creolization in the Making of Modern Argentina by Eduardo Archetti 8. The 'Playing' of Music in a State of Crisis: Gender and Raï Music in Algeria by Marc Schade-Poulsen 9. Creative Commoditization: the Social Life of Pharmaceuticals by Susan Reynolds Whyte 10. Escaping Cultures: the Paradox of Cultural Creativity by David Parkin 11. Recontextualizing Tradition: 'Religion', 'State' and 'Tradition' as Co-existing Modes of Sociality Among the Northern Lio of Indonesia by Signe Howell 12. Kula and Kabisawali: Contexts of Creativity in the Trobriand Islands by John LiepIndex