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Anthropology and Beauty

Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The chapters invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light or touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through places of outstanding natural beauty; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future.

Stephanie Bunn is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.

First published 2018

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ISBN: 978-1-138-92879-4 (hbk)

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Contents

STEPHANIE BUNN

PART I
Beauty and pattern

SUSANNE KCHLER

ELIZABETH DE FREITAS

PART II
Beauty as grace

JILL DALESSANDRO

MARC HIGGIN

ERIC HIRSCH

PETER GOW

PART III
Perceiving beauty

COLWYN TREVARTHEN AND STEPHEN MALLOCH

PETER CUSACK

DIANA. J. B. YOUNG

ENI BANKOLE-RACE

PART IV
Beauty and skill

ANNA GUSTAFSSON

CATHY GREENHALGH

CRISTINA GRASSENI

PART V
Beauty, the body and performance

ALEXANDER EDMONDS

CAROLINE M. POTTER

MELISSA TRIMINGHAM

PART VI
Beauty in space and time

RAY LUCAS

RACHEL J. HARKNESS

LINDSAY BLAIR

CARA KRMPOTICH

PART VII
Beauty, work and design

STEPHEN GUDEMAN

TAI SMITH

IAN J. EWART

WENDY GUNN

PART VIII
Beauty as synthesis

ELIZABETH EWART

CRAIG LIND

STEPHANIE BUNN

TIM INGOLD

1. i

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Jill DAlessandro , curator of the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts, joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2002. Since that time, DAlessandro has curated numerous exhibitions on a diverse variety of subjects, ranging from ethnographic textile traditions to twentieth-century fashion design. She has contributed essays to Fiberarts , Hali , Tribal Art , Textile Society of Americas proceedings and several museum publications.

Eni Bankole-Race is an award-winning textile maker and independent ethnographer. She designs and makes fabrics under her own label, Maverick Designs, marrying traditional techniques with contemporary materials and aesthetics. The conservation of these traditional textile techniques, their cultural significance and their recognition as Heritage craft forms have always been major motivators in her work. Eni is also a freelance lecturer in the ethnography of African textiles.

Lindsay Blair teaches Art History and Cultural Theory at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Research interests include Surrealism in America (with particular emphasis on Joseph Cornell), Cross-Disciplinary Representations: Place as Text in Visual Culture and Literature, and Contemporary Visual Culture of the Scottish Highlands. Scholarly outputs include An exploration of place and its representations: an intertextual/dialogical reading of the photographs of AB Ovenstone and the novel Gillespie by John MacDougall Hay (co-authored), International Review of Scottish Studies , University of Guelph, Canada, 2016; Joseph Cornells Vision of Spiritual Order , London: Reaktion Books, 1999; Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box , BBC Omnibus documentary (60 mins), Writer and Associate Producer, 1991.

Stephanie Bunn is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. She has conducted field research among high mountain pastoral-ists in Kyrgyzstan and has learned many textile skills in her area of study. Her research focuses on creativity, skill, learning and the environment. She is currently conducting collaborative research about Scottish basketry, memory and skill. Stephanie has made several museum textile collections, and curated the first ever British Museum exhibition on Central Asian nomadic textiles, Striking Tents , publishing the associated book, Nomadic Felts (2011).

Peter Cusack is a field recordist and musician/artist long fascinated by our sonic environment. He initiated the Favourite Sounds Project to discover what people find positive about everyday soundscapes and Sounds from Dangerous Places to investigate major environmental damage and change through sound. He is a research fellow at the University of the Arts, London.

Alexander Edmonds is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His research on beauty examined how Brazil became a global leader in cosmetic surgery. He is the author of Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil, awarded the Diana Forsythe and the Eileen Basker book prizes.

Elizabeth Ewart is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Linacre College. She has carried out fieldwork in central Brazil with Panar people and is the author of Space and Society: A Panar Ethnography (Bloomsbury, 2013). Her interests include questions of social identity, personhood and space, as well as issues addressing material culture and value, in the form of gardens and glass beads.

Ian Ewart is Research Fellow at the University of Reading, and ESRC Future Research Leader (201317). He worked in engineering for many years before turning to anthropology as a way of studying the place of technology in the world around us. His current research investigates the role of digital technologies in our experience of the built environment.

Elizabeth de Freitas is Professor in the Education and Social Research Institute, at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on philosophical investigations of mathematics, science and technology, pursuing the implications and applications of this work in cultural studies of education. Her recent work focuses on mathematics and the body, examining gesture, sensation and embodiment in various kinds of mathematical activity. She also writes extensively on social science research methodology, exploring alternative ways of developing experimental research methods that can address biosocial and biopolitical entanglements. She is associate editor of Educational Studies in Mathematics , and has published four books and over 50 chapters and articles on a range of topics.

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