Planning To avoid getting stuck To contain study Most people plan, even if only in their heads No one way

to do it Also possible you may be someone who needs to break free of structure

Working thesis
What is your hunch, proposition, about your research topic?

Materials
Primary material art/anthropology collaborations artworks, literatures, archival materials, my own practice, interviews with those involved?? Secondary sources books and articles on art/anthropology; Critiques of art/anth relationship

How to work with sources.

skim read contents, index, preface, intro, conclusion. Establish authors purpose and plan. decide whether to continue. If so, approach with some questions that will guide more in depth reading:

Questions while reading/looking

Who, what, where, when, why, how?
In my topic about A and A. WHO is important to topic?: Social anthropologists interested in imagination (and perhaps those who have used it without comment); WHAT is at stake? : methods used in both A and A ethnography, psychogeography, fieldwork etc. AND crossovers around concept of imagination e.g. artists who are interested in social imaginaries, artists and anthropologists who engage in reverie, (NOT QUITE SURE WHAT Im LOOKING FOR HERE) WHERE will study range?: International WHEN is significant period: 20-21stC WHY imagination?: one way of understanding shared space between A and A might provide a more interdisciplinary (rather than multidisciplinary) space for A and A HOW is imagination important to A and A?

3 cs
Components break down into smaller parts Change which features of topic suggest change? Context into what school of thought or tradition does my topic fit?

Creating a plan for a piece of writing

Working Thesis
Imagination is the most appropriate basis of exchange between art and anthropology

1.0 Introduction (write it last) 1.1 Aim and purpose 1.2 Approach, motivation etc. 1.3 Define terms 1.4 Contemporary interest in imagination 1.5 Imagination as area of shared interest b/w A and A 1.6 Overview of chapters

Imagination is the most appropriate basis of exchange between

art and anthropology

2.0 Anthropology and Art a special relationship? 2.1 When did it begin? 2.2Why rethink it? 2.3 What might rethinking the relationship through imagination achieve? 3.0 Imagination in the European Tradition 3.1 Origins? 3.2 Romantics 3.3 20Cth 3.4 Socially Engaged??

4.0 Anthropologies of the Imagination 4.1 Five approaches to imagination in anthropology 4.2 Issues with cross cultural uses of imagination as analytical term 4.3 Appropriations of imaginative art methodologies by anthropology

5.0 Imaginings between art and anthropology 5.1 ?? Report on some of my 5.2 own practice? Case studies 5.3 of others work in area? 5.4

Examples?

Adapting planning for research proposal

Working thesis
An analysis of imagination in A and A is the most appropriate basis of exchange between them

Question/Problem
How can an analysis of the concept imagination in art and anthropology enhance the exchange between them?

Aims Review and critique current Art/Anthropology relationship Create a genealogy of imagination in both fields Create/review 3 examples of dialogue b/w A and A where imagination is used as more than method Present portion of the findings using creative non-fiction form

Methods Literature review of A and A exchange Historical review/analysis of dev. of concept imagination Fieldwork/art ethnography Develop creative non-fiction text

context
Needs to make argument to back up working thesis A and A have been linked since C20th surrealism; recent rekindling of that relationship has focused on appropriation of method; danger is that artistic authority eroded, as is anthropological content. *+ This research proposes shift to imagination as shared concept understood differently by each field. Research will test whether this can move A and A from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary exchange i.e. where both fields are de-familiarised by the process.