We focus on the anthropology of art from the mid-1980s to the present, a period of
disturbance and significant transformation in the field of anthropology. The field can be …

Both art and anthropology, this article proposes, are future‐oriented disciplines, united in the
common task of fashioning a world fit for coming generations to inhabit. The first step in …

This book examines the contemporary art world in Latin America from an anthropological
perspective and recognises the recent reconfiguration of Lima's art scene. Giuliana Borea …

This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an
important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology …

La antropología de la imagen es un campo emergente de investigación resultante de tres
líneas de escape separadas, pero íntimamente interconectadas: la renovación y la …

'Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research'aims to expand the field of archaeological
research with an anthropological understanding of practices which include artistic methods …

This essay, drawing on research with cartoonists in Iran, explores cartooning as a distinctive
mode of engaged knowing through drawing and humor. By unraveling the cartoonists' …

Over the past three decades there has been a significant and sustained growth of public and
participatory art, and this shift towards social and participatory models of culture has …

Why do people go to exhibitions, and what do they hope to gain from the experience? What
would happen if people were encouraged to move freely through exhibition spaces, take …

With the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, many artists left as part of a massive
migratory flow out of the country. Other artists had already migrated because of perceived …