Planning Writing Week 3

7/27/2019 Planning Writing Week 3

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Planning

To avoid getting stuck

To contain study

Most people plan, even if only in their

heads

No one way to do it

Also possible you may be someone who

needs to break free of structure


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Working thesis

What is your hunch, proposition, about your

research topic?


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Materials

Primary material

art/anthropology collaborations artworks,

literatures, archival materials, my own

practice, interviews with those involved??

Secondary sourcesbooks and articles on art/anthropology;

Critiques of art/anth relationship


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How to work with sources.

skim read contents, index, preface, intro,

conclusion. Establish authors purpose and

plan.

decide whether to continue. If so, approach

with some questions that will guide more in

depth reading:


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Questions while reading/looking

Who, what, where, when, why, how?In my topic about A and A.

WHO is important to topic?: Social anthropologists interested in imagination (and

perhaps those who have used it without comment);

WHAT is at stake? : methods used in both A and A ethnography, psychogeography,fieldwork etc. AND crossovers around concept of imagination e.g. artists who

are interested in social imaginaries, artists and anthropologists who engage in

reverie, (NOT QUITE SURE WHAT Im LOOKING FOR HERE)

WHERE will study range?: International

WHEN is significant period: 20-21stCWHY imagination?: one way of understanding shared space between A and A might

provide a more interdisciplinary (rather than multidisciplinary) space for A and A

HOW is imagination important to A and A?


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3 cs

Components break down into smaller parts

Change which features of topic suggestchange?

Context into what school of thought ortradition does my topic fit?


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Creating a plan for a piece of writing

Working Thesis

Imagination is the most appropriate basis of exchange betweenart and anthropology

1.0 Introduction (write it last)

1.1 Aim and purpose

1.2 Approach, motivation etc.

1.3 Define terms

1.4 Contemporary interest in imagination

1.5 Imagination as area of shared interest b/w A andA

1.6 Overview of chapters


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Imagination is the most appropriate basis of exchange between

art and anthropology

2.0 Anthropology and Art a special relationship?

2.1 When did it begin?

2.2Why rethink it?

2.3 What might rethinking the relationship through

imagination achieve?

3.0 Imagination in the European Tradition

3.1 Origins?

3.2 Romantics

3.3 20Cth

3.4 Socially Engaged??


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4.0 Anthropologies of the Imagination

4.1 Five approaches to imagination in anthropology

4.2 Issues with cross cultural uses of imagination as

analytical term

4.3 Appropriations of imaginative art

methodologies by anthropology


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5.0 Imaginings between art and anthropology

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

?? Report on some of my

own practice? Case studiesof others work in area?

Examples?


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Adapting planning for research

proposal

Working thesis

An analysis of imagination in A and A is the most appropriate

basis of exchange between them

Question/ProblemHow can an analysis of the concept imagination in art

and anthropology enhance the exchange between them?


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Aims

Review and critique current Art/Anthropologyrelationship

Create a genealogy of imagination in both fields Create/review 3 examples of dialogue b/w A and

A where imagination is used as more thanmethod

Present portion of the findings using creativenon-fiction form


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Methods

Literature review of A and A exchange

Historical review/analysis of dev. of conceptimagination

Fieldwork/art ethnography

Develop creative non-fiction text


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context

Needs to make argument to back up working thesis

A and A have been linked since C20th surrealism; recentrekindling of that relationship has focused onappropriation of method; danger is that artisticauthority eroded, as is anthropological content. *+This research proposes shift to imagination as sharedconcept understood differently by each field. Researchwill test whether this can move A and A from

multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary exchange i.e.where both fields are de-familiarised by the process.

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Planning Writing Week 3