Breaking the Disciplines : Reconceptions in Culture, Knowledge and Art (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations vi Acknowledgements vii Editorial Dialogue 1 Section I: The Imperative to Challenge Disciplinary Orthodoxy Thinking Practice: On the concept of an ecology of knowledge Martin L. Davies 9 Becoming Academics, Challenging the Disciplinarians: A philosophical case-study Helen C. Chapman 35 Section II: Hybrid Objects/Hybrid Methods Real Milk from Mechanical Cows: Invention, creativity and the limits of anthropological knowledge Mark T. Shutes 61 Clockwork Prayer: A sixteenth-century mechanical monk Elizabeth King 84 The Research Methods of an Artist-Ethnographer on the Congo Coast of Panama Arturo Lindsay 129 Section III: Performance, Aesthetics and Knowledge Word of Honour Alphonso Lingis 163 Reconceptualizing a Pictorial Turn: Lessing, Hoffmann, Klee and elements of avant-garde language Beate Allert 187 Practice as Thinking: Toward feminist aesthetics Marsha Meskimmon 223 Index 246