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Celebrating Transgression : Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Cultures ‹br /› A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping / ed. by John Hutnyk, Ursula Rao.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2005]Copyright date: 2005Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800733978
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301/.01 22
LOC classification:
  • GN33 .C45 2006
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Klaus Peter Köpping -- Introduction -- PART I: FIELDWORKS -- 1. Reflexivity Unbound: Shifting Styles of Critical Self-awareness from the Malinowskian Scene of Fieldwork and Writing to the Emergence of Multi-sited Ethnography -- 2 News from the Field: the Experience of Transgression and the Transformation of Knowledge during Research in an Expert-site -- 3 Soiled Work and the Artefact -- 4 Transgression for Transcendence? On the Anthropologist’s (Dis)engagement in the Politics of Meaning -- 5 Running Out of Tricks: the Experience of Ethnography and the Politics of Culturalism -- PART II: PERFORMANCES -- 6. Transcending Transgression with Transgression: Inheriting Forsaken Souls in Bali -- 7 The ‘Dance of Punishment’: Transgression and Punishment in an East Indian Ritual -- 8 Divine Play or Subversive Comedy? Reflections on Costuming and Gender at a Hindu Festival -- 9 Between Meaning and Significance: Reflections on Ritual and Mimesis -- 10 Animism on Stage: Tracing Anthropology’s Heritage in Contemporary African Dance in Europe -- 11 Transgression and the Erotic -- PART III: INFRINGEMENTS -- 12. Michel Leiris: Master of Ethnographic Failure -- 13 Boundary Confusion in Anthropology and Art: Pablo Picasso and Michel Leiris -- 14 The Concatenation of Minds -- 15 Transgressions of Fieldwork/Filed Works: Method in the Madness -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Transgression is the stock in trade of a certain kind of anthropological sensibility that transforms fieldwork from strict social science to something more engaging. It builds on Koepping’s idea that participation transforms perception and investigates how transgressive practices have triggered the re-theorization of conventional forms of thought and life. It focuses on social practices in various cultural fields including the method and politics of anthropology in order to show how transgressive experiences become relevant for the organisation and understanding of social relations. This book brings key authors in anthropology together to debate and transgress anthropological expectations. Through transgression as method, as discussed here, our understanding of the world is transformed, and anthropology as a discipline becomes dangerous and relevant again.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Klaus Peter Köpping -- Introduction -- PART I: FIELDWORKS -- 1. Reflexivity Unbound: Shifting Styles of Critical Self-awareness from the Malinowskian Scene of Fieldwork and Writing to the Emergence of Multi-sited Ethnography -- 2 News from the Field: the Experience of Transgression and the Transformation of Knowledge during Research in an Expert-site -- 3 Soiled Work and the Artefact -- 4 Transgression for Transcendence? On the Anthropologist’s (Dis)engagement in the Politics of Meaning -- 5 Running Out of Tricks: the Experience of Ethnography and the Politics of Culturalism -- PART II: PERFORMANCES -- 6. Transcending Transgression with Transgression: Inheriting Forsaken Souls in Bali -- 7 The ‘Dance of Punishment’: Transgression and Punishment in an East Indian Ritual -- 8 Divine Play or Subversive Comedy? Reflections on Costuming and Gender at a Hindu Festival -- 9 Between Meaning and Significance: Reflections on Ritual and Mimesis -- 10 Animism on Stage: Tracing Anthropology’s Heritage in Contemporary African Dance in Europe -- 11 Transgression and the Erotic -- PART III: INFRINGEMENTS -- 12. Michel Leiris: Master of Ethnographic Failure -- 13 Boundary Confusion in Anthropology and Art: Pablo Picasso and Michel Leiris -- 14 The Concatenation of Minds -- 15 Transgressions of Fieldwork/Filed Works: Method in the Madness -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Transgression is the stock in trade of a certain kind of anthropological sensibility that transforms fieldwork from strict social science to something more engaging. It builds on Koepping’s idea that participation transforms perception and investigates how transgressive practices have triggered the re-theorization of conventional forms of thought and life. It focuses on social practices in various cultural fields including the method and politics of anthropology in order to show how transgressive experiences become relevant for the organisation and understanding of social relations. This book brings key authors in anthropology together to debate and transgress anthropological expectations. Through transgression as method, as discussed here, our understanding of the world is transformed, and anthropology as a discipline becomes dangerous and relevant again.

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In English.

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