Arnd Schneider

• Schneider, Arnd (2023). A Future Horizon for Restitution in a Film on the Argentinian Puna: Rubén Guzmán’s The Noise of Time. Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 36(5), p. 443–464. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2023.2280429. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). The James Bay Project. Rainer Wittenborn's and Claus Biegert's collaboration with the Cree. Etnografie del Contemporaneo. ISSN 2611-4577. 5(5), p. 89–120.
• Schneider, Arnd (2021). Serendipity and art-anthropology interventions. In Hamm, Marion & Schönberger, Klaus (Ed.), Contentious Cultural Heritages and the Arts: A Critical Companion. Wieser Verlag. ISSN 978-3-99029-355-3. p. 345–374.
• Schneider, Arnd (2021). Conjectures and Conjunctures: Learning from Astrology and Art /Anthropology in Athens. 2694-0094. ISSN 2694-0094. 18/19.
• Schneider, Arnd (2021). Rethinking Appropriation as Hermeneutics: Process, Overlay, and Approximation. In Greub, Thierry; Kloss, Sinah Theres & Schröder, Thoralf (Ed.), Kontextwechsel und Bedeutung . Brill | Fink. ISSN 9783770570621. p. 269–287. Show summary

  languages: German and English

• Schneider, Arnd (2020). The Scattered Colonial Body: Serendipity and Neglected Heritage in the Heart of Rome. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage: Ethnographies of TRACES . Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350088108. p. 15–36. Show summary

  This book presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on research from the interdisciplinary TRACES project (funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program). The case studies in this volume critically assess how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of the book is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials, and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity.

• Schneider, Arnd (2020). Working with TRACES. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage: Ethnographies of TRACES . Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350088108. p. 1–13. Show summary

  This book presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on research from the interdisciplinary TRACES project (funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program). The case studies in this volume critically assess how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of the book is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials, and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity.

• Schneider, Arnd (2018). Marx Dies in America:Argentina, Europe and the US between Transit and Abandon. Third Text. ISSN 0952-8822. 32(5-6), p. 759–767. doi: 10.1080/09528822.2018.1567994. Show summary

  This article responds creatively to the dictum: ‘America does not begin from suffering but from its ending’, and to Robert Charlebois poetic figure of ‘presqu ‘Amérique’ (nearly America). Principally, I contend here that ‘America’ (and the Americas at large) was the projection plane for European ideologies, but also that at the same time these ideologies became short-circuited, in other words, they ‘ended’ in America. They were not quite like European ideas any longer, and did not fulfil their historical destiny – or in a rather different way (ie American vs French Revolution etc). Thus ‘America’ also turns into a ‘presque l’ Europe’ (nearly Europe), for example, in Argentina which represented a kind of America of the South for Le Corbusier and other modernists, and the ‘almost Europe’ for its immigrant inhabitants. Against this background, three short études or sketches are presented. 1) the European projection of ending onto the New World: exemplified by Le Corbusier’s visit to Buenos Aires in 1929, and his drawings and city plan, 2) Transit between Europe and Argentina encapsulated in the sea voyage of emigrants, and 3) the ‘real’ New World as a place of abandon, epitomised by recent artworks by Cyrill Lachauer on Paiute territory and the wastelands of former nuclear test sites in Nevada.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). Inscription and Desinscripción: X. Andrade in Conversation with Arnd Schneider. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474231244. doi: 10.4324/9781003084433-16. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). In the Presence of Filipino Art and Objects: Almira Astudillo Gilles in Conversation with Arnd Schneider. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474231244. doi: 10.4324/9781003084433-12. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). Turning Targets in Indonesia and Beyond: Mella Nindityo and Adeline Ooi in Conversation with Arnd Schneider. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474231244. doi: 10.4324/9781003084433-10. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). Theories in Images: Tadashi Yanai in Conversation with Arnd Schneider. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474231244. doi: 10.4324/9781003084433-7. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). Art Anthropology: Shinichi Nakazawa in conversation with Arnd Schneider. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474231244. doi: 10.4324/9781003084433-5. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). African Art in the Global Contemporay: Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi in conversation with Arnd Schneider. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474231244. doi: 10.4324/9781003084433-3. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). Alternatives: World Ontologies and Dialogues between Contemporary Arts and Anthropologies. In Schneider, Arnd (Eds.), Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474231244. doi: 10.4324/9781003084433-1. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd (2016). Art/Anthropology Interventions. In Bianchini, Samuel & Verhagen, Erik (Ed.), Practicable:From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art. MIT Press. ISSN 9780262034753. p. 195–214. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv125jqxp.17.
• Schneider, Arnd (2016). Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation. In Svasek, Maruska (Eds.), Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-78533-181-7. Show summary

  In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity is in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.

• Schneider, Arnd (2016). A Black Box for Participatory Cinema: Movie-making with “Neighbors” in Saladillo, Argentina. Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 29(4-5), p. 406–431. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1192376.
• Schneider, Arnd (2016). Appropriations across disciplines: The futures of art and anthropology collaborations. In Cox, Rupert; Irving, Andrew & Wright, Christopher (Ed.), Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology. Manchester University Press. ISSN 978-0-7190-8505-5. p. 20–30. doi: 10.7228/manchester/9780719085055.003.0002.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). An anthropology of the sea voyage: Prolegomena to an epistemology of transoceanic travel. Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal (MCSJ). ISSN 2413-9181.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). An Anthropology of Abandon:Art Ethnography in Recent Works by Cyrill Lachauer. In Buhrs, Michael & Schneider, Anna (Ed.), Ricochet#9. Kerber Verlag. ISSN 978-3-7356-0078-3. p. 71–76.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). Eine Anthropologie des Verlassenseins:Kunstethnografie in neueren Arbeiten Cyrill Lachauers. In Buhrs, Michael & Schneider, Anna (Ed.), Ricochet#9. Kerber Verlag. ISSN 978-3-7356-0078-3. p. 64–70.
• Schneider, Arnd & Pasqualino, Caterina (2014). Experimental Film and Anthropology. In Schneider, Arnd & Pasqualino, Caterina (Ed.), Experimental Film and Anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-0-85785-442-1. p. 1–25. doi: 10.4324/9781003085379-1.
• Schneider, Arnd (2014). Stills that Move: Photofilm and Anthropology. In Schneider, Arnd & Pasqualino, Caterina (Ed.), Experimental Film and Anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-0-85785-442-1. p. 25–45. doi: 10.4324/9781003085379-2.
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). Towards a new hermeneutics of art and anthropology collaborations. In Swarowsky, Daniela; Schielke, Samuli & Heister, Andrea (Ed.), In Search of Europe?. Jap Sam Books. ISSN 978-94-90322-43-4. p. 158–164.
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). Contested grounds: fieldwork collaborations with artists in Corrientes, Argentina. Critical Arts. ISSN 0256-0046. 27(5), p. 511–530. doi: 10.1080/02560046.2013.855518.
• Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Christopher (2013). Ways of Working. In Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Christopher (Ed.), Anthropology and art practice. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-0-8578-5179-6. p. 1–25. Show summary

  About Anthropology and Art Practice Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as 'art-ethnography'. In engaging with the concerns of both fields, this cutting-edge study tackles current issues such as the role of the artist in collaborative work, and the political uses of documentary. The book focuses on key works from artists and anthropologists that engage with 'art-ethnography' and investigates the processes and strategies behind their creation and exhibition. The book highlights the work of a new generation of practitioners in this hybrid field, such as Anthony Luvera, Kathryn Ramey, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Kate Hennessy and Jennifer Deger, who work in a diverse range of media - including film, photography, sound and performance. Anthropology and Art Practice suggests a series of radical challenges to assumptions made on both sides of the art/anthropology divide and is intended to inspire further dialogue and provide essential reading for a wide range of students and practitioners.

• Schneider, Arnd (2012). Beyond appropriation: Significant overlays in Guarani-inspired designs. Journal of material culture. ISSN 1359-1835. 17(4), p. 345–367. doi: 10.1177/1359183512461103.
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). Anthropology and Art. In Fardon, Richard; Harris, Olivia; Wilson, Richard; Marchand, Trevor H J; Shore, Cris & Nuttall, Mark (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781847875471. p. 56–71.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). Sull'appropriazione. Un riesame critico del concetto e delle sue applicazioni nelle pratiche artistiche globali(revised translation of:)“On ‘appropriation’: a critical reappraisal of the concept and its application in global art practices”, Social Anthropology, 11, (2) 2003, 215 - 229.[ISSN 0964-0286]. In Bargna, Ivan (Eds.), Antropologia, Annuario diretto da Ugo Fabietti, Anno XI (numero 13), "Arte". Ledizioni. ISSN 9788895994918. p. 13–32. doi: 10.1017/s0964028203000156.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). Expanded Visions: Rethinking Anthropological Research and Representation through Experimental Film. In Ingold, Tim (Eds.), Redrawing Anthropology.Materials,Movements,Lines. Ashgate. ISSN 9781409417743. p. 177–195.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). Unfinished Dialogues: Notes toward an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology. In Banks, Marcus & Ruby, Jay (Ed.), Made to Be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology. University of Chicago Press. ISSN 978-0-226-03661-8. p. 108–135.
• Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Cristopher (2010). Between Art and Anthropology. In Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Cristopher (Ed.), Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic Practice. Berg Publishers. ISSN 9781847885005. p. 1–22.
• Schneider, Arnd (2008). Three modes of experimentation with art and ethnography. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 14(1), p. 171–194.
• Schneider, Arnd (2008). Becoming a ‘Third Subject’: Artists of European Origin and the Appropriation of Indigenous Cultures in Argentina. Studi Emigrazione. ISSN 0039-2936. XLV(170), p. 301–318.
• Schneider, Arnd (2007). Fashioning Indians or Beatiful Savages:The Case of Gaby Herbstein's Huellas. In Chong, Natividad Gutiérrez (Eds.), Woman, Ethnicity and Nationalisms in Latin America. Ashgate. ISSN 978-0-7546-4925-0. p. 77–99.

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• Schneider, Arnd (2021). Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image. Routledge. ISBN 9780367253677. 194 p.
• Schneider, Arnd (2020). Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage: Ethnographies of TRACES . Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350088108. 190 p. Show summary

  This book presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on research from the interdisciplinary TRACES project (funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program). The case studies in this volume critically assess how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of the book is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials, and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity.

• Schneider, Arnd (2017). Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474231244. 264 p. Show summary

  While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

• Schneider, Arnd & Pasqualino, Caterina (2014). Experimental Film and Anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-85785-442-1. 205 p.
• Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Christopher (2013). Anthropology and art practice. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-8578-5179-6. 168 p. Show summary

  About Anthropology and Art Practice Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as 'art-ethnography'. In engaging with the concerns of both fields, this cutting-edge study tackles current issues such as the role of the artist in collaborative work, and the political uses of documentary. The book focuses on key works from artists and anthropologists that engage with 'art-ethnography' and investigates the processes and strategies behind their creation and exhibition. The book highlights the work of a new generation of practitioners in this hybrid field, such as Anthony Luvera, Kathryn Ramey, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Kate Hennessy and Jennifer Deger, who work in a diverse range of media - including film, photography, sound and performance. Anthropology and Art Practice suggests a series of radical challenges to assumptions made on both sides of the art/anthropology divide and is intended to inspire further dialogue and provide essential reading for a wide range of students and practitioners.

• Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Cristopher (2010). Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic Practice. Berg Publishers. ISBN 9781847885005. 224 p.

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• Schneider, Arnd (2023). El cine como restitución metafísca en la Puna argentina: El ruido del tiempo de Rubén Guzman (online).
• Schneider, Arnd (2023). Uneven Hermeneutics: Ways of ‘Understanding’ with Art and Anthropology.
• Schneider, Arnd (2023). “Thinking Epistemologies with the Moving Image: Time, Ethics and Restitution.
• Sperlinger, Michael; Schneider, Arnd & Issa, Rana (2022). The Deviant Product #2 (with Rana Issa & Arnd Schneider).
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Absence-Time-Memory (Image)".
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Das James Bay Projekt von Rainter Wittenborn und Claus Biegert: künstlerisch ethnographische Wege in die Zukunft mit den Cree “ [James Bay Project by Rainer Wittenborn and Claus Biegert: artistic and ethnographic ways into the future with the Cree] .
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Arte contemporanea ed antropologia”, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 4 March 2022 (online) .
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Appropriazione,arte ed alterità”, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 4 March 2022 (online) .
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image”, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo, 15 March 2022. (online).
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Film and the Ethics of Restitution”, Anthropology Research Talks, University of Sussex, Daprtment of Anthropology, 4 October 2022.
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Entangled Restitutions: On the Role of Contemporary Films“, Keynote, Ethnocineca,International Documentary Film Festival, Vienna, 12 May, 2022.
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Expanded Visions: Experiments, Ethnography, Restitution”, Keynote, Pierre Verger Awards, Brazilian Anthropological Association, 27 August, 2022 (online).
• Schneider, Arnd (2021). “What can Film Restitute? A discussion of recent examples”, (online).
• Schneider, Arnd (2021). “Production Ethnographies of Green Film Productions: Challenges and Research Questions”, (online).
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Appropriation, Approximation, Overylay”, keynote address, workshop ‘Appropriation’, excellence cluster ‘Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung’ /'Image, Knowledge, Design', Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 30 November, 2015.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Future Scripts for the Museum: Contemporary Arts, Film and Anthropology”, invited keynote lecture, conference “Ethnographic Films in Museums”, National Museum, Copenhagen, 8- 9 October 2015.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Art / Anthropology: The Question of Epistemology”, invited keynote lecture at International workshop ‘Contemporary Anthropologies of Art,’ Durham University, Department of Anthropology, 9 September, 2015.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Artists’ fieldwork as Anthropology’s Other: Epistemological Dislocations between the Contemporary Arts and Anthropology”, invited keynote lecture at international conference ‘Creativitiy in the Arts and Sciences,Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Berlin – Erkner, 7- 8 May 2015.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Contemporary Art, Museums, and Anthropology: Dialogues for the Future”, keynote lecture, SWICH (Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage) conference/workshop ‘Engaging the Senses/Creative Dialogue, Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico ‘Luigi Pigorini’, Rome, 25 May, 2015.
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Experimental Film: Challenges for Anthropology", CNRS-LAIOS, Paris, 17 February, 2015. .
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Cinema sperimentale ed antropologia”, keynote lecture at conference ‘Arte e Antropologia: Cinema Sperimental e Antropologia’, Museo Internazionale delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino, Palermo, 20 January, 2015.
• Schneider, Arnd (2014). “’Truth’ and ‘Fiction’: Ethnography, Art, Film”, introductory lecture at panel discussion ‘Ethnography of the Self: the Status of Everyday Life’, Office of Contemporary Art (OCA), Oslo, 26 November 2014.
• Schneider, Arnd (2014). “Etnografía, Trabajo de Campo y Hermeneutica”,Instituto Superior de Formación de Docente, Saladillo, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10 November, 2014 .
• Schneider, Arnd (2014). “Contemporary Issues in the Art and Anthropology Encounter”,Science, Art, Anthropology, at Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonferanse 2014, University of Bergen, 2 – 4 May 2014.
• Schneider, Arnd (2014). “Expanded Image Practice: Visual Arts, Experimental Film, and Anthropology”, Keynote Lecture and Masterclass, Etnofilm International Ethnographic Film Festival, Rovinj, Croatia, 26 April, 2014.
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). “Hybrid Epistemes: Reflections on the Traffic between Art and Anthropology”, Keynote LectureSame Same Different Symposium, Zürich University of the Arts, 25 – 27 November, 2013.
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). “Convergences: Anthropology and Art Practice”, invited public lecture and book launch “Anthropology and Art Practice, Open Forum, Kunstners Hus / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, 18 November 2013.
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). “Between Art and Anthropology”, Keynote Lecture, Symposium “Art & Anthropology”, University of Siena, 3 – 4 October 2013.
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). For a New Hermeneutics in the Arts – Anthropology Encounter keynote lecture, 7/06/13, Arts With(out) Borders conference, University of Bern, 6 - 8 June, 2013.
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). “Art and Anthropology Encounters: Challenges for Present Practice”, invited keynote lecture for the AHRC workshop “Design as Human Interfact”, Norwich University College of the Arts/Unviersity of Creative Arts, London, 22 January 2013.
• Anderson, Astrid & Schneider, Arnd (2013). Bak lerretet: antropologer jobber med film. Show summary

  Film og bilder har alltid vært et viktig redskap for antropologer: Som dokumentasjon og til formidling. Utstillingen Bak lerretet vil vise noen måter ulike antropologer har jobbet med film på og tar utgangspunkt i sju antropologer som enten selv har filmet eller har samarbeidet med filmskapere i Skandinavia de siste 30 årene. Filmene som blir presentert omfatter tv-sendte foredrag, tv-dokumentarer, klassiske etnografiske filmer og film som forskingsverktøy og i undervisningsøyemed. Utstillingen tar også for seg hvordan antropologisk film blir oppbevart og gjort tilgjengelig for publikum, blant annet via Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo som har en omfattende samling etnografisk film til utlån. Utstillingen fokuserer på den materielle siden ved det å lage film – fra ideen blir unnfanget, til perioden med aktiv filming, til redigeringsarbeidet, til hvordan filmer blir oppbevart og tilgjengeliggjort via ulike medier – og viser gjenstander og fotografier assosiert med disse prosessene: Blant annet ulike kameratyper som har blitt brukt, utdrag fra dagbøker og manuskripter, stillbilder fra filmingen og andre gjenstander assosiert med filmene. I tillegg vil utvalgte filmer bli vist, både i stort format og på mindre skjermer. Antropologene og filmskaperne som presenteres i utstillingen er Stig Holmqvist, Aud Talle, Arve Sørum, Frode Storås, Rosella Ragazzi, Jan K. Simonsen, Peter Crawford, Fredrik Barth og Ebbe Ording.

• Schneider, Arnd (2012). “Photofilm and Anthropology”, International Symposium: New Visions: Art, Experimental Film, and Anthropology, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 30 -31 March, 2012.
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). “Engaging Art and Anthropology”, Seminar: The Museum of Loss and Renewal: Object becomes Subject, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, 23 November 2011.
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). "Rethinking Appropriation through Guaraní Design Objects",American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, 20 November 2011.
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). “Fieldwork, Art, and Anthropology”, Kunshøgskolen I Oslo /Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 9 October, 2012.
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). “Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation: Guaraní-inspired Ceramics in Misiones, Argentina”, International Conference: Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Circulating Images, University of Utrecht, 31 May – 1June 2012.
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). “Antropologia e Arte Relazionale”, invited lecture and panel participation,L’arte di fa la differenza / The art of making the Difference conference, Natural History Museum, University of Turin, 14 December 2012.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). “Appropriation, Approximation, Overlay”, international conference ‘Materiality, Movement, Museum’, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, 20 September 2011.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Thinking through Appropriation: Guaraní Design Objects", Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut/Ibero-American Institute, Berlin, 23 June 2011.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Ethnologie und Gegenwartskunst: Partner im Dialog?", Kunsthochschule für Medien/Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, 16 June 2011.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Expanded visions: what anthropology can learn from experimental film", Institute of Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin, 7 April 2011.
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Experimental Film and Anthropology: Theoretical Challenges", Nouvelles visions : film expérimental et anthropologie, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 18 March 2011.
• Schneider, Arnd (2010). “Camera Positions: Remarks on Observer and Observerd in Art and Anthropology”, Photographer’s Gallery, London, 17 November , 2010.
• Schneider, Arnd (2010). “Dialogues: The Future of Art and Anthropology Collaborations”, FEATURES workshop, Universität für Angewandte Künste / University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 1- 2 October, 2010.
• Schneider, Arnd (2010). ”Rethinking Appropriation as Art Practice: Ethics, Materiality, Relational Process”, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 9 June, 2010.
• Schneider, Arnd (2010). Statement zu den Plänen des Humboldt-Forums (Statement on the plans of the Humboldt-Forum), Workshop Ethnologie, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin / Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, 09.01.2010.
• Schneider, Arnd (2010). Zum Dialog zwischen Kunst und Ethnologie (On the dialogue between Art and Anthropology),invited lecture, Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts), Munich, 19.01.10.
• Schneider, Arnd (2009). ”Unfinished Dialogues: Notes Towards an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2- 6 December, 2009. Show summary

  Unfinished Dialogues: Notes towards an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo) Rather than providing a survey history of the anthropology of art, this paper charts the relationship between disciplines of art (visual arts in the widest sense), art criticism and art history, and anthropology. A particular emphasis is placed on practices of appropriation of other cultures in the different disciplines, as well as their relationship with each other. Paradigmatic figures which have crossed boundaries and gone beyond accepted frames will be explored. Amongst these are, Aby Warburg’s interpretation of snake rituals he observed among Native Americans in the South Western US, Alfred Court Haddon’s early film recordings, Robert Redfield’s and Margaret Park Redfield’s collaboration with the journal Mexican Folkways and the photographer Tina Modotti, Michel Leiris’s participation in the surrealist movement, Julius Lips’s early work on representation of the west in non-western art (The savage hits back), Maya Deren’s ethnographic and film work in Haiti, as well as classic innovators of the subject in anthropology, such as Franz Boas, and more recently, Alfred Gell. The paper makes strong case for the review of past promises and failures of interdisciplinary crossings between art and anthropology, in order to chart possibilities of dialogue in the future.

• Schneider, Arnd (2009). Appropriation Reconsidered: Future Prospects of a Complex Concept in Art, invited plenary lecture, Biannual Conference, German Asssociation of Anthropologists (DGV), Frankfurt/Main, 3 October, 2009. Show summary

  Appropriation Reconsidered: Future Prospects of a Complex Concept in Art Arnd Schneider, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Urban-based visual artists in different parts of the world appropriate from indigenous cultures, employing a variety of strategies, and professing a variety of motifs for their work (ranging from the revalorization of indigenous pasts and the construction of new identities, to collaborations with indigenous communities, and reflexive critiques of anthropological practices). Appropriating strategies and tactics are always part of moral systems and recent writing has addressed the complex ethical issues involved. Moreover, recent advances in the theorization of agency and materiality offer the prospect to understand the specific dynamics of appropriation, regarding both nature of the agents and the materials involved. More generally, the question is asked of how the analysis of appropriation in the visual arts can contribute to an understanding of the processes of cultural differentiation in a globalizing world.

• Schneider, Arnd (2009). Contested Grounds: "Fieldwork Collaborations with Artists in Corrientes, Argentina", Peformance, Art and Anthropology, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 11 -12 March, 2009. Show summary

  Abstract Contested Grounds: Appropriation and Performance in Collaborations with Artists in Argentina Arnd Schneider, University of Oslo Every year the inhabitants of the village of Santa Ana, Argentina, celebrate their patron saint on 26 July. This project involved collaboration with contemporary visual artists from the nearby provincial capital, Corrientes, making a series of hybrid ‘works’ between art and anthropology. This included material participation in (rather than ‘observation’ of) the performance of the procession, i.e. the making of a new dress for the saint’s statue, the production of a video, and fieldnotes. The appropriation of and material intervention into a setting of popular religiosity raises questions about the epistemological status of art - anthropology collaborations as hybrid knowledge productions.

• Schneider, Arnd (2009). "Expanded Visions: Rethinking Anthropological Research and Representation trough Experimental Film and Other Experiments with Vision in Contemporary Art (e.g. Op-Art)", invited keynote lecture, 24/06/09, Redrawing Anthropology Conference (convenor: Tim Ingold), University of Aberdeen, 22 - 24 June 2009. Show summary

  Expanded Visions: Rethinking Anthropological Research and Representation trough Experimental Film and Other Experiments with Vision in Contemporary Art (e.g. Op-Art) Arnd Schneider, Professor, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. This paper reviews critically of experimental film-making, as well as experiments with vision and perception in the contemporary arts (e.g. op-art), and explores their possible relevance for anthropological practices of research and representation. Whilst the ‘filmic metaphor of montage’ has been discussed to some degree in relation to ethnographic practice (Marcus), visual anthropology/ethnographic cinema (e.g. Grimshaw), and phenomenologically inflected ethnographic writing (e.g. Willerslev), experimental cinema (particularly in its 1970s version of so-called ‘structuralist’ or ‘materialist’ film) poses a set of altogether more radical challenges which fundamentally interrogate the ‘material’ processes of perception, vision and subsequent conditions for the processes of representation. In the case of experimental film, as pre-digital analogue celluloid film of the 1970s this involved mostly non-narrative film reflecting on the material conditions of the film-making process itself and the apparatus involved (film material, camera, projector, screen), in order to make the viewer aware of the artificial production of the filmic process and its material specifics (e.g. celluloid material which through chemical process is made optically sensitive, the ratio of 24 images per second, the habitual compression of ‘real’ time in narrative cinema, the single screen as the dominant feature in narrative cinema etc.). Similar to what has been done with the concept of ‘montage’ (which, after experimental beginnings), is now a feature of mainstream narrative, or as experimental film-makers have it ‘illusionist’ cinema), the aim of this paper is to explore the conceptual and theoretical potential of experimental film-making and experiments with vision/perception in the arts, for anthropology.

• Schneider, Arnd (2009). "Creolizzazione, ibridizazione, alterità: sulle trasformazioni delle identità tra europei e discendenti in America Latina (con particolare riferimento all'Argentina)" invited lecture, University of Turin, Department of History, Italy, 04/05/2009.
• Schneider, Arnd (2009). “Art – Anthropology Border Crossings: Challenges for the Future”.
• Schneider, Arnd & Øien, Cecilie (2008). World Kaleidoscope / Verdenskaleidoskopet.
• Schneider, Arnd (2008). “Hidden Horizons: Notes towards an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology”, invited keynote lecture at panel ‘Art and Ethnology’, SIEF Congress, Derry, 19 June 2008.
• Schneider, Arnd (2008). “Appropriations across Disciplines:The Future of Art and Anthropology Collaborations".
• Schneider, Arnd (2008). "Zeitgenössische Künstler und die Aneignung indigener Kulturen in Argentinien".
• Schneider, Arnd (2008). “Appropriation’ reconsidered: a critical reappraisal of the concept and its application in contemporary art practices in Argentina”. Show summary

  The aim of the seminar is to reveal the bridges between the two disciplines of art and anthropology, and to show the different ways practitioners from these fields work with ethnography, fieldwork and the arts. Ethics, aesthetics and methodology will be central themes.

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