This book reexamines the interconnectedness of culture and creativity in
an increasingly hybrid world. They argue that while many of the old
certainties about high culture and artistic canons may now be
disintegrating, culture and creativity themselves are still very much a
reflection of social processes involving power and the control of
resources. Case studies include youth subcultures in Europe;
experimental theatre derived from the Brazilian candomblé dance; the
role of memory in mythology among the Pukapukan of Polynesia; the
evolution of football and polo in Argentina; gender relations in
Algerian raï music; the notion of authenticity in artistic movements in
Zanzibar; traditional and modern practices of the Lio in Indonesia; and
kula exchange and social movements in the Trobriand Islands in the
Pacific.