[Linganth] Jonas Tinius' new book, State of the Arts

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

Jonas Tinius discusses his book, *State of the Arts: An Ethnography of
German Theater and Migration* with Matthew Raj Webb on the CaMP
anthropology blog today.


https://campanthropology.org/


Best,

Ilana

Press blurb: This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German
public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution
in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how
artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and
cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural
production positions itself in relation to the tumultuous history of German
state patronage, difficult heritage, and self-cultivation through the arts.
Jonas Tinius' fieldwork with professional actors, directors, cultural
policy makers, and activists unravels how they constitute theatre as a site
for extra-ordinary ethical conduct and how they grapple with the pervasive
German cultural tradition of Bildung, or self-cultivation through the arts.
Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide a way to understand the
entanglement of cultural policy, institution-building, and
subject-formation. An ambitious and interdisciplinary study, the work
demonstrates the crucial role of artistic intellectuals in society.
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