The anthropology of art and the art of anthropology : a complex relationship

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dc.contributor.advisorRobins, Steven
dc.contributor.authorAllen, Rikaen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-07T05:51:38Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:45:36Z
dc.date.available2008-05-07T05:51:38Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:45:36Z
dc.date.issued2008-03en_ZA
dc.descriptionThesis (MPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.
dc.description.abstractIt has been said that anthropology operates in “liminal spaces” which can be defined as “spaces between disciplines”. This study will explore the space where the fields of art and anthropology meet in order to discover the epistemological and representational challenges that arise from this encounter. The common ground on which art and anthropology engage can be defined in terms of their observational and knowledge producing practices. Both art and anthropology rely on observational skills and varying forms of visual literacy to collect and represent data. Anthropologists represent their data mostly in written form by means of ethnographic accounts, and artists represent their findings by means of imaginative artistic mediums such as painting, sculpture, filmmaking and music. Following the so-called ‘ethnographic turn’, contemporary artists have adopted an ‘anthropological’ gaze, including methodologies, such as fieldwork, in their appropriation of other cultures. Anthropologists, on the other hand, in the wake of the ‘writing culture’ critique of the 1980s, are starting to explore new forms of visual research and representational practices that go beyond written texts.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2304
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectArt theoryen_ZA
dc.subjectEpistemologyen_ZA
dc.subjectComplexityen_ZA
dc.subjectHIV/Aidsen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Sociology and social anthropologyen
dc.subjectTheses -- Sociology and social anthropologyen
dc.subjectAnthropology -- Philosophyen
dc.subjectArt -- Philosophyen
dc.subjectVisual anthropologyen
dc.titleThe anthropology of art and the art of anthropology : a complex relationshipen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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