Roger Sansi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Sansi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Sansi |
| SIGNATURE | SANSI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Trouble With Art
Fetishes and Monuments
Fetishes and Monuments examines the complex relationship between Afro-Brazilian religions and Brazilian modernism in the twentieth century. Roger Sansi argues that these religions, rather than being a mere source of exotic inspiration for artists, played a crucial role in shaping the very foundations of Brazilian cultural identity. The book explores how Afro-Brazilian art and culture, often marginalized and misunderstood, became central to the de…
The Anthropologist as Curator
Anthropologist As Curator
Utopia and Idiocy
This article presents public art experiments that have taken place in cities of the metropolitan region of Barcelona, Spain. Some of these experiments were commissioned with the purpose of fostering social cohesion, but instead, they have made social dissent visible. I analyze these public art experiments through two terms that have been often used to question them: utopia and idiocy. I argue that both terms are important in understanding the pol…
Across Anthropology
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collec…
Art's agency and art history – Edited by Robin Osborne & Jeremy Tanner
Fetishes and Monuments
Fetishes and Monuments examines the complex relationship between Afro-Brazilian religions and Brazilian modernism in the twentieth century. Roger Sansi argues that these religions, rather than being a mere source of exotic inspiration for artists, played a crucial role in shaping the very foundations of Brazilian cultural identity. The book explores how Afro-Brazilian art and culture, often marginalized and misunderstood, became central to the de…
Across Anthropology
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collec…
Art's agency and art history – Edited by Robin Osborne & Jeremy Tanner
Across Anthropology
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collec…
The Anthropologist as Curator
Anthropologist As Curator
Utopia and Idiocy
This article presents public art experiments that have taken place in cities of the metropolitan region of Barcelona, Spain. Some of these experiments were commissioned with the purpose of fostering social cohesion, but instead, they have made social dissent visible. I analyze these public art experiments through two terms that have been often used to question them: utopia and idiocy. I argue that both terms are important in understanding the pol…
Fetishes and Monuments
Fetishes and Monuments examines the complex relationship between Afro-Brazilian religions and Brazilian modernism in the twentieth century. Roger Sansi argues that these religions, rather than being a mere source of exotic inspiration for artists, played a crucial role in shaping the very foundations of Brazilian cultural identity. The book explores how Afro-Brazilian art and culture, often marginalized and misunderstood, became central to the de…
The Trouble With Art
Anthropology (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Curatorship (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological ethics (1 works) · Anthropological museums and collections (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)