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Digressions and the Human Imagination

Tracing the Indirectness of Cultural Creativity
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Description

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. And yet, what we know about the nature of creative processes is surprisingly limited. Taking their cue from literary studies, the contributors to this volume explore digression as human creativity’s main impulse. They offer a series of experimental explorations of digression in different arenas of social life – literature, conversations, myths, humor, art, wayfinding. In their examination of the relationship between creativity and digressive processes, the contributions challenge and eventually collapse conventional distinctions between ‘artistic’ and ‘scientific’ imaginaries. The book articulates with clarity the freedom and joy of wandering off in new directions, but also the potentially transgressive and even revolutionary character that digression has when it is put to work through the creativity of the human imagination. It will be relevant for anthropologists and other scholars from across the humanities and social sciences with an interest in creativity.

Author Biography:

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), 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.
Release date Australia
July 29th, 2024
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributor
  • Edited by Morten Nielsen
Illustrations
22 Halftones, black and white; 22 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
248
ISBN-13
9781032519920
Product ID
38431564

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