Anthro-artists
Anthropologists as makers and creatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mariane C Ferme (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1060-1064 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | HAU-N.E.T (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1086/718325 |
| OpenAlex | W4210410252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
In the quarter century since this account of the terrain where art and ethnography meet, anthropologists have moved their work beyond the social scientific, and explored alternative modes of expression, including artistic forms ranging from the visual to the performative and poetic. This special section was conceived by myself in collaboration with Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, whom I thank for her contributions to our early conceptual formulations, and for soliciting some of the articles included here. Our intent was to gather here anthro-artists—individuals who identify and practice as artists as well as anthropologists. In this aspect, this collection differs from the valuable work of anthropologists who have expanded the meeting ground of the arts and anthropology by focusing on similarities, appropriations, overlapping methodological approaches, and aesthetic rapprochements between anthropology and the arts (Elhaik 2021), as exemplified by practitioners in one or the other field (see Schneider and Wright 2006). Some of the contributors to this section engage in multimodal, multisensorial anthropology, producing collaborative, inventive, and experimental projects that emerge from the contingencies of their field encounters. They also disseminate their work in media other than the textual (see Dettatrayan and Marrero-Guillamón 2019).1 But many of the projects that fall within these fields still tend to be the work of creatives whose primary training is as anthropologists—albeit with a critical gaze on the discipline’s dominant methods and modes of scholarship
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Performative utterance · Scholarship · Sociology · The arts · Visual anthropology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |