LOCATING CULTURAL CREATIVITY

Edited by

JOHN LIEP

Pluto Press LONDON • STERLING, VIRGINIA

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1 John Liep

PART 1 : CREATIVITY IN ACTION A N D A N A L Y S I S 15

1. Creative Arguments of Images in Culture, and the Charnel House of Conventionality 1 7 James W. Fernandez

2. Othello's Dance: Cultural Creativity and Human Agency 31 Kirsten Hastrup

3. The Iron Cage of Creativity: A n Exploration 46 Jonathan Friedman

4. Wondering about Wutu 62 Robert Borofsky

5. Celebrating Creativity: On the Slanting of a Concept 71 Orvar Löfgren

6. The Construction of Authenticity: The Case of Subcultures 81 Rolf Lindner

P A R T II: LOCALIZED CREATIVE PROCESSES 91

7. Nationalism, Football and Polo: Tradition and Creolization in the Making of Modern Argentina 9 3 Eduardo P. Archetti

8. The 'Playing' of Music in a State of Crisis: Gender and Rai Music in Algeria 106 Marc Schade-Poulsen

9. Creative Commoditization: The Social Life of Pharmaceuticals 119 Susan Reynolds Whyte

10. Escaping Cultures: The Paradox of Cultural Creativity 133 David Parkin

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11. Recontextualizing Tradition: 'Religion', 'State' and 'Tradition' as Coexisting Modes of Sociality among the Northern Lio of Indonesia 144 Signe Howell

12. Kula and Kabisawali: Contexts of Creativity in the Trobriand Islands 159 John Liep

Contributors Index

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