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Anthropology and Art Practice

Objectives

1. To provide a set of theoretical tools for the study of contemporary artistic practices, privileging the anthropological perspective.
2. To situate students in the disciplinary subfield of Anthropology of Art and in the respective theoretical-conceptual framework.
3. To situate students critically in the recent developments in this area of study, in particular in the methodological transits between anthropology and contemporary art.
4. To stimulate the capacity for critical analysis of specific ethnographies related to the themes of the course unit.

General characterization

Code

722001099

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Sónia Isabel Vespeira de Almeida

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • GARCIA CANCLINI, N., 2011, La sociedad sin relato. Antropologia y estética de la inminencia, Madrid, Katz Editores.
  • GELL, A., 1998, Art and Agency, an Anthropological Theory, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
  • MORPHY, H.; PERKINS, M. (eds.), 2006, Anthropology of art: a reader, Oxford, Blackwell.
  • MACCLANCY, J. (eds.), 1997, Contesting Art. Art, Politics and Identity in the Modern World, Oxford, New York, Berg.
  • MARCUS, G. E.; MEYERS, F. R., (eds.), 1995, The Traffic in Culture. Refiguring Art and Anthropology, Berkeley, LosAngels, London, University of California Press.
  • SCHNEIDER, A.; WRIGHT, C. (eds.), 2006, Contemporary Art and Anthropology, Oxford, New York, Berg.
  • SVASEK, M., 2007, Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production, London, Pluto Press.

Teaching method

Course unit. presents a theoretical-practical methodology, lectures with various audiovisual materials and discussion sessions promoted by the students, centered on the presentation and critical commentary of previously selected texts.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - The assessment will consist of the presentation and oral discussion of texts by the students and a written essay where the student will integrate the knowledge acquired throughout the semester(100%)

Subject matter

1. Main trends in the anthropological approach to artistic practices today
2. Anthropology and art practices: trajectory of the main debates. Invisibilities and Visibilities
3. What is art for anthropology? Questioning the concept and legitimizing the disciplinary sub-area
4. Primitivism, art and artefacts
5. Modalities of circulation and consumption of artistic objects
6. Anthropology and contemporary art: modes of relationship
7. Artists and ethnographic practice