Andrew Irving
Professor of Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. Research areas include sensory perception, time, illness, death, urban anthropology and experimental methods, film and multi-media.
Recent books include:
"The Art of Life and Death" (HAU Monograph Series: University of Chicago, 2017) ; Anthropologies and Futures (Bloomsbury with Sarah Pink, Johannes Sjoberg, Juan Salazar); "Beyond Text: Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology", (2016 with Rupert Cox and Christopher Wright. Manchester University Press); "Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Cosmopolitanisms, Relationalities and Discontents," (2014 with Nina Glick-Schiller. Berghahn Press);
Recent media works include the play The Man Who Almost Killed Himself (2014) in collaboration with Josh Azouz and Don Boyd, which was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival and concurrently live-streamed to Odeon Cinemas and BBC Arts.
Other media works include the New York Stories Project (2013), which is currently hosted on more than thirty websites including Scientific American, The Smithsonian, Wenner Gren and National Public Radio.
Address: Dept of Anthropology,
Arthur Lewis Building,
University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M13 9PL
UK.
Recent books include:
"The Art of Life and Death" (HAU Monograph Series: University of Chicago, 2017) ; Anthropologies and Futures (Bloomsbury with Sarah Pink, Johannes Sjoberg, Juan Salazar); "Beyond Text: Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology", (2016 with Rupert Cox and Christopher Wright. Manchester University Press); "Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Cosmopolitanisms, Relationalities and Discontents," (2014 with Nina Glick-Schiller. Berghahn Press);
Recent media works include the play The Man Who Almost Killed Himself (2014) in collaboration with Josh Azouz and Don Boyd, which was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival and concurrently live-streamed to Odeon Cinemas and BBC Arts.
Other media works include the New York Stories Project (2013), which is currently hosted on more than thirty websites including Scientific American, The Smithsonian, Wenner Gren and National Public Radio.
Address: Dept of Anthropology,
Arthur Lewis Building,
University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M13 9PL
UK.
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The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice (2017): Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize Honorable Mention 2018
"The art of life and death is unlike anything I have ever read in its combination of theoretical ambition and methodological innovation" Danilyn Rutherford
"The art of life and death is a monumental anthropological achievement" Paul Stoller
"A brilliantly engaging piece of work that invites us to rethink life itself" Sarah Pink
"A splendid achievement" Veena Das
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Papers by Andrew Irving
The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice (2017): Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize Honorable Mention 2018
"The art of life and death is unlike anything I have ever read in its combination of theoretical ambition and methodological innovation" Danilyn Rutherford
"The art of life and death is a monumental anthropological achievement" Paul Stoller
"A brilliantly engaging piece of work that invites us to rethink life itself" Sarah Pink
"A splendid achievement" Veena Das
A play made in collaboration with Theatre Director Josh Azouz, based on my texts “Ethnography, Art and Death” (2007) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13(1) and “Strange Distance: Towards an Anthropology of Interior Dialogue” (2011) Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25,(1).
Premiered Edinburgh Festival; 7th-11th August 2014
BBC Arts: 10th August 2014
Odeon Cinemas: 11th August 2014
Starring: Tonderai Munyevu and Danielle Vitalis with music by The Ganda Boys
Writer: David Watson
Producer: Louise Chantal
Producer: Don Boyd
HiBrow Productions