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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In planning the conference we were determined to move the subject on rather than simply to provide a forum for participants to display their assorted wares. To this end we decided to set a clear intellectual agenda for the conference in advance. This took the form of a tightly structured programme of sessions based on four themes originally entitled ‘Creativity visual perception and material culture’ ‘The creativity of social political and religious life’ ‘Creativity and temporality’ and ‘The creativity of anthropological scholarship. We have retained the four-theme structure in this book devoting a separate part to each with minor changes in the titles for each part to reflect the interests and emphases that emerged during the conference discussion. We also asked the conference convenors for each theme to contribute an introduction to the corresponding part of the volume (an exception is Part 1 which is introduced by one of us since the co-convenor James Leach is himself the author of a chapter). It was with their advice too that we selected the papers that would eventually be included in the volume from the three times as many that were actually presented in the conference. As editors. we would like to pay tribute to the contributions of all who presented. By all accounts the standard of presentations and the discussion that ensued was very high and the task of selecting papers for publication was not easy. Inevitably. our choices were guided not only by quality but also with an eye to the thematic coherence of the volume as a whole. (LL)