Arnd Schneider

• Schneider, Arnd (2025). The “witchy properties” of extractivism: Archaeology, lithium mining, and a solar train in Jujuy, Argentina. Anthropology and Humanism. ISSN 1559-9167. 50(2). doi: 10.1111/anhu.70056. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This essay experimentally juxtaposes two kinds of extractivism in Jujuy, northwest Argentina—archaeological excavations at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century on the one hand, and contemporary lithium mining in the 21st century on the other. The latter is linked to a government green developmentalist agenda, which is further manifested by the recent taking into service of a hypermodern, electric train, the “solar” train ( tren solar ), so‐called because it is powered by lithium batteries fed from an electric grid which includes solar energy. Extrapolating from a celebratory poem, the essay further suggests that the “properties” that once enthralled the traveler to return to the magic beauty of Jujuy province have now become “witchy properties” of both archaeological and mineral extractivism, disturbing old balances and setting society and environment out of joint.

• Schneider, Arnd (2024). An Anathema for Memory Loss. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 14(1), p. 257–260. doi: 10.1086/728995. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2023). Expanded Visions and Beyond. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 13(3), p. 754–757. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2023). The James Bay Project: Künstlerisch-ethnographische Wege in die Zukunft mit den Cree. In Anette, Billmayer (Eds.), Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Jahrbuch 37, 2023. Wallstein Verlag. ISSN 9783835356467. p. 47–57. Full text in Research Archive
• 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 Show summary

  This article offers a detailed discussion of the film The Noise of Time by Rubén Guzmán (Argentina, 2021). The essay film is a poetic reflection on the morally questionable excavations and anthropological research by the early 20th-century Swedish-Argentine archaeologist-anthropologist Eric Boman (1867–1924), in the northwestern Argentinian high Andes (Puna). In this film Boman has to return as a ghost to the Puna to bury Carpanchay, his former indigenous guide, also now a ghost, in order to redeem for his bad deeds as an archaeologist-anthropologist in real life. This article explores the historical background and, extending on the film’s metaphysical message, makes an explicit case for potential restitution (of artifacts from Boman’s excavations that are now held in various museums in Argentina and Europe) in the context of the recent restitution debate.

• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  languages: German and English

• Schneider, Arnd (2021). Conjectures and Conjunctures: Learning from Astrology and Art /Anthropology in Athens. 2694-0094. ISSN 2694-0094. 18/19. Full text in Research Archive
• 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 9783990293553. p. 345–374. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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). 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 9780719085055. p. 20–30. doi: 10.7228/manchester/9780719085055.003.0002. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2016). Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation, Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781785331817. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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 9783735600783. p. 71–76. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). Eine Anthropologie des Verlassenseins:Kunstethnografie in neueren Arbeiten Cyrill Lachauers. In Buhrs, Michael & Schneider, Anna (Ed.), Ricochet#9. Kerber Verlag. ISSN 9783735600783. p. 64–70. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). An anthropology of the sea voyage: Prolegomena to an epistemology of transoceanic travel. Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal (MCSJ). Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd & Pasqualino, Caterina (2014). Experimental Film and Anthropology. In Schneider, Arnd & Pasqualino, Caterina (Ed.), Experimental Film and Anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9780857854421. p. 1–25. doi: 10.4324/9781003085379-1. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2014). Stills that Move: Photofilm and Anthropology. In Schneider, Arnd & Pasqualino, Caterina (Ed.), Experimental Film and Anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9780857854421. p. 25–45. doi: 10.4324/9781003085379-2. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Christopher (2013). Ways of Working. In Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Christopher (Ed.), Anthropology and art practice. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9780857851796. p. 1–25. Full text in Research Archive 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 (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 9789490322434. p. 158–164. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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 9780226036618. p. 108–135. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive

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• Schneider, Arnd (2021). Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image. Routledge. ISBN 9780367253677. 194 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2020). Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage: Ethnographies of TRACES. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350088108. 190 p. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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 9780857854421. 205 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd & Wright, Christopher (2013). Anthropology and art practice. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780857851796. 168 p. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive

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• Schneider, Arnd (2025). Expanded visions: moving images between Art and Antropology. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Drawing on his latest book, *Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image* (Routledge, 2021), Schneider discusses the potential of time-based media (cinema, video art) within contemporary art and anthropology. His analysis engages with scholarly debates spanning ethnography, relational aesthetics, sensory ethnography, observational cinema, and participatory video. A critical examination of Baudrillard’s concepts of the simulacrum and the "hyperreal" will serve to analyze filmmakers' interventions in the landscape and the implications these may hold for the production of memory. Finally, the relationship between moving and still images will be explored through the genre of the photofilm.

• Schneider, Arnd (2025). Uneven Artistic Hermeneutics Between Collecting and Restitution: the Work of Teresa Pereda. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This invited lecture discussed the work of Argentina artist Teresa Pereda in the light of Hermeneutics and Restitution

• Schneider, Arnd (2025). Beyond Frames: Time Images in the Fields of Memory. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper proposes some experimental investigations, by way of conjunction and conjecture, into moving and still images of memory in the fields of certain preparatory work for film shoots, and photographic video installation to shed light on the encounter with the private archive and collection of a retired cinema impresario. Building on my latest book, Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image (Routledge, 2021), the paper applies insight from preparatory work for Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1975) and contemporary multi-media artist Yonkseok Oh’s Classic (2009 -2010) series of video installations, to discuss the ‘(re) seeding’ of memory beyond the frame of apparently arrested time in the photographic image or filmic still frame. The discussion will coalesce around certain ‘time images’ (pace Deleuze) from ethnographic fieldwork with a former cinema impresario in a provincial town in Argentina.

• Schneider, Arnd (2025). For A New Hermeneutics of Cultural Appropriation. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this keynote lecture I will discuss a number of different approaches (process, overlay, approximation) to cultural appropriation. The argument and its exposition will be synthetic in nature, and extend on my previous work in this area (Schneider 2003, 2006a, 2006b, 2012, 2016, 2017). The case studies for illustration will be from the visual arts and material culture, drawing on my research in Argentina. With cultural appropriation I mean social and cultural practices through which one (or more) elements are taken out of the ‘original’ cultural context and used in another, often with a change of form and meaning. Seen from the vantage point of recent theorizing around agency and relationality, ‘appropriation’ allows for a middle position in that it allows to consider both the agency of the individual object (or symbol or practice), and the persons involved in the appropriating process, i.e. the appropriating agents. In sum, rather than seeing appropriation as a mechanical transfer of cultural material, it is here understood as a relational process. In addition, some forms of appropriation can be conceived as a kind of overlay, where two or more systems of meaning can co-exist, without one being transformed into the other. Finally, ‘approximation’, allows appropriation to be considered as hermeneutic practice, which does not necessarily occupy the ‘semantic territory’ of the Other (Schneider 2017). Following from this, the idea is to further explore the potential of an ‘uneven hermeneutics’, and precisely its possibilities for ‘speaking terms’ (via Clifford 1989), in situations of radical alterity, but also in different ‘subject/object ’situations (in terms of power, for example) in global South / North entanglements. The ‘speaking terms’ are also those anthropologists and artists have to find in their collaborations, and their apprehension (and sometimes appropriation) of the Other.

• Schneider, Arnd & Milan, Leone Contini, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, (2025). Ruminations, (Re)collections, Restitutions: A conversation on the Challenges of Art/Anthropology Interventions in Decolonial Times. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this joint keynote presentation artist – anthropologist Leone Contini and anthropologist Arnd Schneider met to discuss a number of art, exhibition, and film projects, in which they have been involved in multiple roles of curator, researcher and artist over the last decade. All projects address complicated issues of the post-colonial and decolonial, and include critical processes of serendipitous ruminations, (re) collections and questions of restitution. The conversation notably reviewed the “art/anthropology intervention” (Schneider 2016, 2020) where Arnd Schneider, together with artist Leone Contini, investigated collections of the former Italian Institute of Africa and the Orient / African Colonial Museum as part of the EU Horizon funded TRACES project (https://web.archive.org/web/20221211192351/https://www.tracesproject.eu/ ).

• Schneider, Arnd (2025). Probing arts and emergent forms of life. Politics, Religion & Ideology. ISSN 2156-7689. 26, p. 1–3. doi: 10.1080/21567689.2025.2526866. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2023). Uneven Hermeneutics: Ways of ‘Understanding’ with Art and Anthropology. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2023). “Thinking Epistemologies with the Moving Image: Time, Ethics and Restitution. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2023). El cine como restitución metafísca en la Puna argentina: El ruido del tiempo de Rubén Guzman (online). Full text in Research Archive
• 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]. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Absence-Time-Memory (Image)". Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Film and the Ethics of Restitution”, Anthropology Research Talks, University of Sussex, Daprtment of Anthropology, 4 October 2022. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image”, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo, 15 March 2022. (online). Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Appropriazione,arte ed alterità”, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 4 March 2022 (online). Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Expanded Visions: Experiments, Ethnography, Restitution”, Keynote, Pierre Verger Awards, Brazilian Anthropological Association, 27 August, 2022 (online). Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Entangled Restitutions: On the Role of Contemporary Films“, Keynote, Ethnocineca,International Documentary Film Festival, Vienna, 12 May, 2022. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2022). “Arte contemporanea ed antropologia”, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 4 March 2022 (online). Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2021). “Production Ethnographies of Green Film Productions: Challenges and Research Questions”, (online). Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2021). “What can Film Restitute? A discussion of recent examples”, (online). Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Experimental Film: Challenges for Anthropology", CNRS-LAIOS, Paris, 17 February, 2015. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2015). “Appropriation, Approximation, Overylay”, keynote address, workshop ‘Appropriation’, excellence cluster ‘Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung’ /'Image, Knowledge, Design', Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 30 November, 2015. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2014). “Etnografía, Trabajo de Campo y Hermeneutica”,Instituto Superior de Formación de Docente, Saladillo, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10 November, 2014. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2013). “Between Art and Anthropology”, Keynote Lecture, Symposium “Art & Anthropology”, University of Siena, 3 – 4 October 2013. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Anderson, Astrid & Schneider, Arnd (2013). Bak lerretet: antropologer jobber med film. Full text in Research Archive 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). “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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). “Photofilm and Anthropology”, International Symposium: New Visions: Art, Experimental Film, and Anthropology, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 30 -31 March, 2012. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). "Rethinking Appropriation through Guaraní Design Objects",American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, 20 November 2011. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2012). “Fieldwork, Art, and Anthropology”, Kunshøgskolen I Oslo /Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 9 October, 2012. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Experimental Film and Anthropology: Theoretical Challenges", Nouvelles visions : film expérimental et anthropologie, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 18 March 2011. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Expanded visions: what anthropology can learn from experimental film", Institute of Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin, 7 April 2011. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). “Appropriation, Approximation, Overlay”, international conference ‘Materiality, Movement, Museum’, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, 20 September 2011. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Ethnologie und Gegenwartskunst: Partner im Dialog?", Kunsthochschule für Medien/Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, 16 June 2011. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2011). "Thinking through Appropriation: Guaraní Design Objects", Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut/Ibero-American Institute, Berlin, 23 June 2011. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2010). “Camera Positions: Remarks on Observer and Observerd in Art and Anthropology”, Photographer’s Gallery, London, 17 November , 2010. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2010). ”Rethinking Appropriation as Art Practice: Ethics, Materiality, Relational Process”, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 9 June, 2010. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive
• Schneider, Arnd (2009). “Art – Anthropology Border Crossings: Challenges for the Future”. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive 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). "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. Full text in Research Archive
• 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. Full text in Research Archive 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). ”Unfinished Dialogues: Notes Towards an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2- 6 December, 2009. Full text in Research Archive 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. Full text in Research Archive 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.

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