Here is the title of Xabier Vila-Coia's latest book, published in Spanish and English in July and October 2025 respectively:
ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. PERSPECTIVES FROM ARTISTIC PRACTICE: Empirico-Realism, Moz-Art and Experimental Visual Anthropology
Below is a brief synopsis and metadata to inform the public interested in acquiring it.
SYNOPSIS
On the foundation of Realist Empiricism, Moz-Art and Experimental Visual Anthropology, Xabier Vila-Coia stood up a completely new way of conducting investigation and innovation between 1995 and 2014 that he was christened with the generic name of ‘provocative observation-participation’. It casts light on features that are important in all societies and cultures that were left in the dark by traditional qualitative research techniques in the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular – most notably simple observation and participant observation. Other related procedures are added to provocative observation-participation, such as auto-provocation, exo-provocation and provoked and provocative creation, each of great utility for social scientists and doers of all kinds.
In a clear and concise way, this unique and standout author presents to the reader his experiences and reasoning around these novel and original practices, so that whoever finds this book may too understand them and use them in their professional projects, and even in everyday life.
The theoretical part includes pure anthropological examples and anthropo-artistic examples that will not fail to make an impression on anyone, and that join with his career spanning the past three decades confirm Xabier Vila-Coia, on international scene, as one of the visual artists with the most personality and creative strength since the disappearance of Dadaism and Surrealism.
This book is an excellent sample.
METADATA
Publisher: Lapinga Ediciones
Colection: Microensayos
Place of edition: Madrid
Format: 12 cm x 17 cm
Thickness: 1,1 cm
Weight: 193 g
Number of pages: 132 (book with colour photographs)
Binding: paperback
Subjects: Anthropology, politics, art theory, photography
Language: English
ISBN: 978-84-948062-2-3
Legal Deposit: M-18506-2025
Price: $ 150