1. Introduction: anthropology and curation through the looking glass / Roger Sansi -- 2. Curatorial designs in the poetics and politics of ethnography today: act II / Tarek Elhaik and George Marcus -- 3. The recursivity of the curatorial /Jonas Tinius and Sharon Macdonald -- 4. Whose stories about Africa? Reflexivity and public dialogue at the Royal Ontario Museum / Silvia Forni -- 5. Facing the 'curatorial turn': anthropological ethnography, exhibitions, and collecting practices / Ivan Bargna -- 6. Ethnographic Terminalia: co-curation and the role of the anecdote in practice / Stephanie Takaragawa, Trudi Lynn Smith, Fiona P. McDonald, Kate Hennessy and Craig Campbell -- 7. Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space / Judith Winter -- 8. From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology / Jen Clarke -- Curating the intermural graffiti in the museum 2008-2018 / Rafael Schacter -- The curator, the anthropologist: 'presentialism' and open-ended enquiry in process / Alex Flynn -- Between automation and agency: curatorial challenges in new terrains of digital/visual research / Eva Theunissen and Paolo S. H. Favero -- Anthropological sound curation: from listening to curating / Noel Lobley.
Summary:
"Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anthropology risk disappearing as a specific discipline within the general model of the curatorial? The Anthropologist as Curator collects together the research of international scholars working at the intersection of anthropology and contemporary art in order to explore these questions. The essays in the book challenge what it means to do ethnographic work, as well as the very definition of the discipline of anthropology in confrontation with the model of the curatorial. The contributors examine these ideas from a variety of angles, and the book includes perspectives from anthropologists who have set up their own exhibitions; those who have conducted fieldwork on the arts, including participatory practices, digital images and sound; and contributors who are currently working in a curatorial capacity at a museum. With case studies from the USA, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, India and Japan, the book represents an international perspective and is relevant to students and scholars of anthropology, contemporary art, museum studies, curatorial studies and heritage studies."-- Provided by publisher
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