Arnd Schneider is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.Christopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Introduction: The Challenge of Practice (Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright)1. Appropriations (Arnd Schneider)2. Moon and Mother: Francesco Clemente's Orient (Christopher Pinney, University College London)3. Where Green Grass Comes to Meet Blue Sky: a trajectory of Josef Sima (Michael Richardson, Waseda University, Tokyo)4. Encounters with the Work of Susan Hiller (Denise Robinson, independent scholar, London) 5. Reflections on Art and Agency: knot-sculpture between mathematics and art (Susanne Kuchler, University of London)6. Artists in the Field: On the Threshold between Art and Anthropology (George E. Marcus, Rice University and Fernando Calzadilla, New York University) 7. Photographic Essay (Dave Lewis, photographer, London)8. Dialogues with Dave Lewis, Rainer Wittenborn, Claus Biegert, Nikolaus Lang, and Rimer Cardillo (Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright. Rainer Wittenborn, artist and Professor, Technical University of Munich. Claus Biegert, author and radio journalist, Munich. Nikolaus Lang, artist and Professor, The Academy of the Arts, Munich. Rimer Cardillo, artist and Professor of Printmaking at the State University of New York, New Paltz)9. Travels in a New World: work around a diasporic theme by Mohini Chandra (Elizabeth Edwards,University of the Arts, London College of Communication)10. The Ancient American Roots of Abstraction (Cesar Paternosto, Painter, Sculptor and Author, Segovia, Spain)11. Carlos Capelan: our modernity not theirs (Jonathan Friedman, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and University of Lund, Sweden) 12. The Case of Tattooing (Nicholas Thomas, Goldsmiths College)