Anthropology and beauty : from aesthetics to creativity / edited by Stephanie Bunn.

part, I Beauty and pattern -- chapter 1 Anthropology and beauty -- Introduction / Stephanie Bunn -- chapter 2 The problem with beauty -- An anthropological perspective / Susanne Küchler -- chapter 3 The material labour of artful mathematics 1 / Elizabeth de Freitas -- part, II Beauty as grace -- chapter 4 With beauty all around me, I walk / Jill D'Alessandro -- chapter 5 The unexpected gift of beauty / Marc Higgin -- chapter 6 Beauty and captivation -- Fuyuge gab and Gell's anthropological theory of art / Eric Hirsch -- chapter 7 The continual changes -- Transforming art styles in Enlightenment Scotland and beyond / Peter Gow -- part, III Perceiving beauty -- chapter 8 Grace in moving and joy in sharing -- The intrinsic Beauty of communicative musicality from birth / Colwyn Trevarthen Stephen Malloch -- chapter 9 The Favourite Sounds Project / Peter Cusack -- chapter 10 Colour palettes and beauty / Diana J. B. Young -- chapter 11 Aso iyi, aso eye -- Resplendence and the Yoruba prestige textile aso-oke / Eni Bankole-Race -- part, IV Beauty and skill -- chapter 12 Beauty as a capacity -- A study of hands-in-craft / Anna Gustafsson -- chapter 13 Cinematographers' skilled vision and aesthetic praxis / Cathy Greenhalgh -- chapter 14 Beauty as skill and 'common sensing' / Cristina Grasseni -- part, V Beauty, the body and performance -- chapter 15 Fleshly beauty -- An anthropological perspective / Alexander Edmonds -- chapter 16 Beauty in motion -- Collective creativity in contemporary dance / Caroline M. Potter -- chapter 17 Surprised by beauty -- Imagining Autism / Melissa Trimingham -- part, VI Beauty in space and time -- chapter 18 Threshold and temporality in architecture -- Practices of movement in Japanese architecture / Ray Lucas -- chapter 19 Carbuncles, surfaces and beautiful built environments / Rachel J. Harkness -- chapter 20 Paradigms of transmission -- Aesthetic affinities and intertextualities in the art of Will Maclean / Lindsay Blair -- chapter 21 Beauty and belonging / Cara Krmpotich -- part, VII Beauty, work and design -- chapter 22 Beauty and economy / Stephen Gudeman -- chapter 23 Mysterious equations -- Formulating good design for Textiles U.S.A. / T'ai Smith -- chapter 24 Engineering as a process of beauty / Ian J. Ewart -- chapter 25 Collaborative forms / Wendy Gunn -- part, VIII Beauty as synthesis -- chapter 26 Appropriation, imitation and creation -- Glass beadwork among Panará people / Elizabeth Ewart -- chapter 27 The beauty of sand-drawing in Vanuatu -- Kinship and continuity on Paama Island / Craig Lind -- chapter 28 The beautiful and the blessed -- Brightness, balance and bones in Kyrgyz shyrdak felt / Stephanie Bunn -- chapter 29 From the North with my cello, or, five propositions on beauty / Tim Ingold.

"Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The essays invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light, touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through 'places of outstanding natural beauty'; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future."--Provided by publisher.