Description:
- Describes how in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity is in transition.
- Highlights the spread of modernist discourses of creativity.
- The contributions are based on a long term collaborative research project in the spheres of the arts, religion, fashion and museum practice in Europe, India, Africa, Australia and the Americas.
Brief description:
Birgit Meyer (PhD cultural anthropology, 1995) is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. She is co-editor of Material Religion and the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Recent publications include Aesthetic Formations. Religion, Media and the Senses (ed, Palgrave 2009), Things. Religion and the Question of Materiality (ed with Dick Houtman, Fordham 2012) and Sensational Movies. Video Vision and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015).
Review Quotes:
"The editors' and contributors' point about the relative and collaborative nature of creativity is well made in the volume, and the ethnographic examples shine interesting light on diverse corners of culture while pinpointing a number of shared issues." - Anthropology Review Database
"This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on appropriation and the aesthetics of change. Conceiving creativity as process rather than outcome is the key argument of the book whose contributors discuss the argument in numerous ways and case studies." - Peter Probst, Tufts University