Digressions and the Human Imagination

Tracing the Indirectness of Cultural Creativity
Herausgeber: Nielsen, Morten

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Produktbeschreibung

Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity. The creative force of the human imagination is widely considered as a key ingredient in understanding how social and cultural transformations occur.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781032519920
• ISBN-10: 1032519924
• Artikelnr.: 70146318

Autorenporträt

Morten Nielsen is a social anthropologist working on socially sustainable urban development. And stand-up comedy. Since November 2018, he has been based at the National Museum of Denmark as Research Professor and Head of the Research Center for Social Urban Modelling (SUMO). Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Africa (Mozambique), Latin America (Brazil), the US (New York City), the UK (Scotland), and Denmark, he has published on such issues as urban development, state formation, vernacular architecture, time and temporality, human creativity, and stand-up comedy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1. METHODOLOGY
1. "Mind-Wandering and Mushrooming in Russian Art and Literature"
2. "Learning how to Digress in Clown Training Workshops"
3. "...and Six Digressive Leaps: Methodology"
Part 2. TIME
4. "... a digressive conversation about digression in creative writing"
5. "Digression Doubled: Stand-Up Comedy as Transformative Trickery"
6. "...and Six Digressive Leaps: Time"
Part 3. CONNECTIONS
7. "Mythic Digressions in Science"
8. "Comedic Comparisons: Absurd Juxtapositions and the Value of Digressive Truths"
9. "...and Six Digressive Leaps: Connections" Part 4. INTERIORITY
10. "Myrkur as Mother North: Feminist Digressions in Black Metal Culture"
11. "Beating Around the Bush: Digression while Wayfinding the Kalahari Desert"
12. "...and Six Digressive Leaps: Interiority" Part 5. AESTHETICS 13. "Life-Affirming: The Digressive Practice of Art Appreciation"
14. "Fischart ... Sancho ... Beckett ... Joyce
or, An Essay in Praise of Babble"
15. "...and Six Digressive Leaps: Aesthetics"
6. TRACES
16. "Naboland. Unplanned Journeys of Discovery"
17. "Universal Basic Income and the Colonization of Mars: tracing the effects of policy ideas that are yet to be implemented"
18. "...and Six Digressive Leaps: Traces"