Digressions and the Human Imagination

Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity. The creative force of the human imagination is widely considered as a key ingredient in understanding how social and cultural transformations occur.

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Morten Nielsen is a social anthropologist working on socially sustainable urban development. And stand-up comedy. Since November 2018, he has been based at the National Museum of Denmark as Research Professor and Head of the Research Center for Social Urban Modelling (SUMO). Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Africa (Mozambique), Latin America (Brazil), the US (New York City), the UK (Scotland), and Denmark, he has published on such issues as urban development, state formation, vernacular architecture, time and temporality, human creativity, and stand-up comedy.