Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
    Advanced Search

    Click here to search products using title name,author name and keywords.

    • Login
    • Hi, User  
      • Your Account
      • Logout
      Advanced Search

      Click here to search products using title name,author name and keywords.

      Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

      Chapter

      Imagination, History, the Uncany
      loading

      Chapter

      Imagination, History, the Uncany

      DOI link for Imagination, History, the Uncany

      Imagination, History, the Uncany book

      Imagination, History, the Uncany

      DOI link for Imagination, History, the Uncany

      Imagination, History, the Uncany book

      BookReflections on Imagination

      Click here to navigate to parent product.

      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 41
      eBook ISBN 9781315604244
      Share
      Share

      ABSTRACT

      This chapter explores the ways imagination can offer human beings new capacities to constitute know and locate themselves in the world beyond the limits of the real. In exploring the roles that creativity and imagination play in our experience of the world Vincent Crapanzano argues that imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. The chapter explores the central role of the imagination in anthropology at both epistemological and ontological level. Starting from the recognition that anthropology is fundamentally relational, it also explains that imagination becomes central to anthropology's project of engagement with humanity. The youths at Rundu Graphics re-imagined their lives and lives of other Namibian youths beyond the constraint of the real through their music, their work in the studio and their religious preaching. In doing so they were reconstituting the world in moral and existential terms as a place of success, boundless possibilities and redemption.

      T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
      • Policies
        • Privacy Policy
        • Terms & Conditions
        • Cookie Policy
        • Privacy Policy
        • Terms & Conditions
        • Cookie Policy
      • Journals
        • Taylor & Francis Online
        • CogentOA
        • Taylor & Francis Online
        • CogentOA
      • Corporate
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
      • Help & Contact
        • Students/Researchers
        • Librarians/Institutions
        • Students/Researchers
        • Librarians/Institutions
      • Connect with us

      Connect with us

      Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
      5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2022 Informa UK Limited