Creativity in transition : politics and aesthetics of cultural production across the globe / edited by Maruska Svasek and Birgit Meyer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement; Chapter 1 -- African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design; Chapter 2 -- Heads Against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity: Indian Luxury Embroidery Between Craft, Fashion Design and Art; Chapter 3 -- The Social Life of Kottan Baskets: Craft Production, Consumption and Circulation in Tamil Nadu, India; Chapter 4 -- Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India.

Chapter 5 -- Approximation as Interpretative Appropriation: Guaraní-Inspired Ceramics in Misiones, ArgentinaChapter 6 -- Positioned Creativity: Museums, Politics and Indigenous Art in British Columbia and Norway; Chapter 7 -- 'We Paint Our Way and the Christian Way Together': Transforming Yolngu and Ngan'gi Art through Creative Ancestral-Christian Practice; Chapter 9 -- 'The Eye Likes It': National Identity and the Aesthetics of Attraction Among Sri Lankan Tamil Catholics and Hindus.

Chapter 10 -- Narrative, Movements, Objects: Aesthetics and Power in Catholic Devotion to Our Lady of Aparecida, BrazilChapter 11 -- The Art of Imitation: The (Re)Production and Reception of Jesus Pictures in Ghana; Afterword -- Creativity in Transition; Index.

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