AbstractsAnthropology

A Nomad With Every Thing

by Joshua Michael Smith




Institution: University of California – Riverside
Department:
Year: 2016
Keywords: Philosophy; Cultural anthropology; Linguistics; Place; Space; Visual Art
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2135207
Full text PDF: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/49b2z67x


Abstract

The thesis describes and locates the artists interests within a philosophical and anthropological framework. Through the investigation of select writings by anthropologist Tim Infold, cultural and linguistic anthropologist Keith H. Basso, and philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari the thesis points to everything outside of our consciousness being bounded by language and useful to people in regards to their development of a deeper understanding of the world.