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There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, examines the relation between creativity and the perception and passage of time, and reviews the creativity and improvisational quality of anthropological scholarship itself. Individual essays examine how the concept of creativity has changed in the history of modern social theory, and question its applicability as a term of cross-cultural analysis. The contributors highlight the collaborative and political dimensions of creativity and thus challenge the idea that creativity arises only from individual talent and expression.

1. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation: An Introduction
Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
2. Improvisation and the Art of Making Things Stick
Karin Barber, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham
I. Art, Intellect and the Attribution of Creative Agency
Section Introduction
Tim Ingold, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
3. Design, Innovation and Agency in Pattern Construction
Amar Mall, Department of Anthropology, University College London
4. Creating or Performing Words Visually
Fuyubi Nakamura, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
5.Creativity, Subjectivity and the Dynamic of Possessive Individualism
James Leach, King's College, University of Cambridge
II. Creative Appropriations and Institutional Contexts
Section Introduction
Melissa Demian, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, and Sari Wastell, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London
6. Creating Ethnography: Differing Notions of Creativity in Anthropological Knowledge
Production, a Maori/European Example
Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London
7. Just Like the Greek Polis: Creativity, Authenticity and Political Legitimacy in Kabylia
Judith Scheele, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
8. 'You Knit me in my Mother's Womb': Creativity and Creation in English Baptist
Understandings of Assisted and Assisting Conception
Jeanette Edwards, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
III. Creativity and the Passage of Time: History, Tradition and the Life-Course
Section Introduction
Sharon Macdonald, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, and Eric Hirsch, Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University
9. Tradition and the Individual Talent: T.S. Eliot for Anthropologists
Felicia Hughes-Freeland, School of Social Sciences, University Wales, Swansea
10. Back to the Future: Temporality, Narrative and the Ageing Self
Catherine Degnen, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle
11. Performing the World: The Imaginative Link between Action and History
Kirsten Hastrup, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
IV. The Creativity of Anthropological Scholarship
Section introduction
Mark Harris, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews and Clara Mafra, Anthropology, State University of Rio de Janeiro
12. From Documenting Culture to Experimenting with Cultural Phenomena: Using Fine Art
Pedagogies with Visual Anthropology Students
Amanda Ravetz, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University
13. Creativity in Anthropology and Fiction Writing
Trevor Stack, Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen, and Robey Callahan, St Austell, Cornwall
14. 'Radio Elicitation': New Directions in Radio Research
Richard Vokes, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Epilogue
15. A World Without Anthropology
Clara Mafra, Anthropology, State University of Rio de Janeiro
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