ABSTRACT
Collaborations between artists and anthropologists have increased during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and continue to evoke considerable debate. Proponents and antagonists in the respective fields discuss a wide range of issues concerning methodology, theorization, representation and presentation. The idea of possessing scientific neutrality and rationalism transformed into self-reflexive investigations that scrutinized how cultural background and personal experience impacted on the research process. The capacity of the renewed collaboration between art and anthropology has been realized through the Ethnographic Terminalia, established as an experimental artistic environment in parallel with the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association since 2009, and the Anthropology and the Arts Network founded as part of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in 2017. The chapter also provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
