This book presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on research from the interdisciplinary TRACES project (funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program). The case studies in this volume critically assess how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders.
At the heart of the book is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials, and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity.
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Arnd Schneider presents creative ethnographic perspectives on the intersection between art, anthropology, and contested and difficult cultural heritage from contributors in Europe.
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2 The Scattered Colonial Body: Serendipity and Neglected Heritage in the Heart of Rome |
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3 The Palm, the Couscous, the Face |
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4 Research on Research on Research: On Reflexive Relationality |
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5 Framing Faces: A Conversation Between Razvan Anton and Julie Dawson Led by Matei Bellu |
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6 An Ethnography of Process: Following the Realization of the Awkward Objects of Genocide Project |
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7 Awkward Objects of Genocide Project--Difficult Encounters with Holocaust Folk Art: A Hybrid Record of Research and Exhibition Planning Roma |
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8 From Something to Nothing: A Peculiar Ethnography of a Peculiar Art Project |
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10 Dead Images: Multivocal Engagements with Human Remains |
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11 Disposing of Dead Images: Reflections on Contentious Heritage as Toxic Waste |
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12 Participatory Approaches to Places of Unresolved Heritage: Working with The Communities of Long Kesh/Maze |
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13 Dispersed Presence: Long Kesh/Maze Prison, its Artefacts as Catalysts of Testimony |
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Arnd Schneider is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has written substantially on contemporary art and anthropology, and is Editor of Alternative Art and Anthropology (2017), and with Chris Wright, Contemporary Art and Anthropology (2006) Between Art and Anthropology (2010), and Anthropology and Art Practice (2013).
