Semiotic Dimensions of Creativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2295502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Wilf (0000-0003-0975-2826, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 397-412 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030020 |
| OpenAlex | W2136614702 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 125 |
Recurrent, most recently Romantic, ideologies conceptualize creativity as the solitary, ex nihilo creation of products of self-evident and universal value-most emblematically in the field of art-by highly exceptional individuals. Such ideologies obscure the social dimensions of creativity that come into view via anthropological analysis: (a) the nature and ubiquity of creative processes as communicative and improvisational events, with real-time emergent properties, involving human and nonhuman agents in the context of pre-existing yet malleable genres and constraints; (b) the role of socialization in the making of creative individuals, implicating processes of social reproduction; and (c) the processes by which certain objects and individuals are recognized and constructed as exemplars of creativity and thus acquire their value. This review discusses these dimensions by synthesizing cultural and linguistic/semiotic anthropological research. It concludes by addressing the recent transformation of creativity into the neoliberal philosopher's stone and the potential contribution of anthropology to the demystification of this transformation
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Creativity · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Ideology · Improvisation · Semiotics · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Visual arts · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Semiotics and Representation Studies · Social Psychology
In the Wake of Brands
The Textility of Marking
Language and Creativity
The Semiotics of Improvisation
Hipsters and drunks, tourists and locals
The act of knowing and the indeterminacy of the known in Huichol contexts (Mexico)
To go with the free information flow
Creativity in Production and Work
Against Creativity
The Closed-World Principle
Oriental for a Day
Redrawing design experiences
All of the Rules of Jazz”
Mimesis and mimicry in language – Creativity and aesthetics as the performance of (dis-)semblances 1
Becoming Artists
Qualia of Stress and Bodily Enregisterment in Ice Swimming
Ritual Semiosis in the Business Corporation
Meta-ideologies of Textuality
You don’t do this at school, do you?’
Creativity
Cultures of Creativity
Re‐imagining suburbia, feeling the future
Remaking Classical Music
New Media Ecologies, Old Occupational Subjectivities and Practices
Microgenesis of language creativity
You don't have enough letters to make this noise
Tensions in aesthetic socialization
Sociolinguistics going 'wild
Towards a critical anthropology of the (de)creative turn in heritage
The life of a political speech(writer)
I randomize, therefore I think
Linguistic Anthropology in 2015
Routinized Business Innovation
Craft in an age of creativity
Cutting at the edge
The pleasures of ambiguity
Anthropology through Levinas (Further Reflections)
The Post-it Note Economy
Brutalism and the People
Trying Haiku Poetry
Introduction
The Dialogic Imagination
Big Ears
The Program Era
Structure, Innovation and Agency in Pattern Construction
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Creativity, Subjectivity and the Dynamic of Possessive Individualism
Two. The “Cool” Organization Man
Art And Agency
Liquidated
Saying Something
Thinking in Jazz
Language, Charisma, and Creativity
Critique of the Power of Judgment
Valuing the Unique
Apprenticeship in Thinking
Crafting Selves
The Tacit Dimension
Coda—Creativity and Improvisation in Jazz and Organizations
Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function
The cultural biography of things
The field of cultural production
Competence in performance
Pricing the priceless child
The Forest of Symbols
Natural histories of discourse
Verbal art as performance
Learning to Labor
The Rise of the Creative Class
Frame analysis
The fame of Gawa
Signs in Society
Creativity and Cultural Improvisation
Creating or Performing Words? Observations on Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy
The field of Cultural Production
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
Anthropology, art, and aesthetics
Introduction
Agent, Person, Subject, Self
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality
Signs of Recognition
Politics of Piety
The Gift
Odds and Ends
From Media Technologies That Reproduce Seconds to Media Technologies That Reproduce Thirds
The aristocracy of culture
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
Creativity/Anthropology
Heartland Excursions
Across the Scales of Time
Rituals of Creativity
Inalienable Possessions
Sources of the self
Discourse and the No-thing-ness of Culture
Language and Social Relations
Talking Heads
Creativity and Cultural Improvisation
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
In the Course of Performance
The semiotics of improvisation
A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction
Intellectual Property Law and the Ethics of Imitation in Guatemala
Breaking in and spinning out
What no bedtime story means
Literacy and Orality
Situated Learning
Lines
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Axes of Evals
Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power
Materials for a Confrontation with Genius as a Personal Identity
The soul danced into the body
The Hexis of Interpretation
The Limits of Authenticity in Vietnamese Consumer Markets
A Most Ingenious Paradox
Professional Vision
Evaluation regimes and the qualia of quality
Softer soju in South Korea
From Folk Art To Fine Art
Sociality with Objects
Enactments of Expertise
The Semiotics of Brand
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
Brand, Citationality, Performativity
Scaffolding Imitation in Capoeira
Swinging within the iron cage
Another country is the past
Ethics, tradition, authority
Sincerity Versus Self-Expression
Stories and Cosmogonies
Streamlining the Muse
Managing the margins
Sociable robots, jazz music, and divination
Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality
Neoliberal Agency
Creativity and Learning Jazz
Race, Gender, and 'Foreign Exchange' in Samoan Performing Arts
On Dreams, Innovation and the Emerging Genre of the Individual Artist
| Unique citing works | 41 |
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| Citations per year | 3,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |