Anthropology and Beauty: From Aesthetic to Creativity, edited by Stephanie Bunn
Bibliographic record
Abstract
T his imposing volume explores varied perspectives on the experience and production of what the contributors of the twenty-eight chapters of the book take to be 'beauty.'Bunn's edited volume offers an understanding of the recent trend of the anthropological thinking of art, aesthetics, and creativity, and aims to see the value of an anthropological approach to beauty which illuminates some of the shared preoccupations of scholars of aesthetics.The book does not so much analyze beauty or reflect on the philosophical trends that theorize it, but instead, in an anthropological gesture, each chapter explores beauty as something non-static, as a form of action, as the result of actions, as something both universal and relative, and as something that is lived by people through their senses.In so doing, this volume gives voice to the everyday experience of beauty.This bridges the divide between an evaluative aesthetic approach in which beauty is lodged in the object under consideration, and a relativistic approach, which is key to anthropology and takes such judgment to be solely subjective.The approach of this book is to consider beauty as dynamic and living processes experienced through relationships, whether between person and thing; makers and the made; person and process or action; person and environment; or person and person.These experiential and relational approaches are explored in the eight parts of the book.These chapters are preceded by an introduction, which sets the table for some of the complex philosophical ideas developed in the book.Part 1 shows how beauty as it relates to patterning and mathematical cognition can be grasped and experienced as affective through actions of the body and the social.This breaks with the analytical tendency to assume that patterns
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".