Celebrating transgression : method and politics in anthropological studies of culture, a book in honour of Klaus Peter Köpping / edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutnyk, John, 1961- editor.

Rao, Ursula, editor.

Köpping, Klaus-Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Fieldwork.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 253 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Berghahn Books, [2006]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80073-397-6

1-84545-025-6

OCLC:

1453645794