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to do it Also possible you may be someone who needs to break free of structure
Working thesis
What is your hunch, proposition, about your research topic?
Materials
Primary material art/anthropology collaborations artworks, literatures, archival materials, my own practice, interviews with those involved?? Secondary sources books and articles on art/anthropology; Critiques of art/anth relationship
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Components break down into smaller parts Change which features of topic suggest change? Context into what school of thought or tradition does my topic fit?
1.0 Introduction (write it last) 1.1 Aim and purpose 1.2 Approach, motivation etc. 1.3 Define terms 1.4 Contemporary interest in imagination 1.5 Imagination as area of shared interest b/w A and A 1.6 Overview of chapters
2.0 Anthropology and Art a special relationship? 2.1 When did it begin? 2.2Why rethink it? 2.3 What might rethinking the relationship through imagination achieve? 3.0 Imagination in the European Tradition 3.1 Origins? 3.2 Romantics 3.3 20Cth 3.4 Socially Engaged??
4.0 Anthropologies of the Imagination 4.1 Five approaches to imagination in anthropology 4.2 Issues with cross cultural uses of imagination as analytical term 4.3 Appropriations of imaginative art methodologies by anthropology
5.0 Imaginings between art and anthropology 5.1 ?? Report on some of my 5.2 own practice? Case studies 5.3 of others work in area? 5.4
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Question/Problem
How can an analysis of the concept imagination in art and anthropology enhance the exchange between them?
Aims Review and critique current Art/Anthropology relationship Create a genealogy of imagination in both fields Create/review 3 examples of dialogue b/w A and A where imagination is used as more than method Present portion of the findings using creative non-fiction form
Methods Literature review of A and A exchange Historical review/analysis of dev. of concept imagination Fieldwork/art ethnography Develop creative non-fiction text
context
Needs to make argument to back up working thesis A and A have been linked since C20th surrealism; recent rekindling of that relationship has focused on appropriation of method; danger is that artistic authority eroded, as is anthropological content. *+ This research proposes shift to imagination as shared concept understood differently by each field. Research will test whether this can move A and A from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary exchange i.e. where both fields are de-familiarised by the process.