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This paper will argue that revisiting the ideas and practice of the twentieth-century German artist Joseph Beuys is germane to contemporary discussions of place and human ecology in anthropology. Through an exploration of work undertaken by the artist and a discussion of the influence of Goethe on his practice, it will explore the way in which Beuys' approach to art was informed by a set of methodologies which saw the inner life of the human being and the outer world with which she or he engages as profoundly linked in both physical and psychic terms. Beuys' work points, the author will suggest, to the potential for a myth of fieldwork and a communication of its results that places the anthropologist within a constantly changing world of matter that she or he shapes and transforms and is, in turn, transformed by.

This volume presents papers from the 11th IARTEM conference on textbooks and educational media, held at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania in September 2011. The theme of the conference was Representations of Otherness. More than sixty participants attended the conference, coming from five continents and 17 different countries. Otherness is something 'other' that is seen from a specific, central point of view, be it political, sexual or cultural. Otherness has been discussed by conference participants in terms of ethnicity, race, the nation, gender, class and these socio-cultural categories in textbook and educational media. Since its very beginning in 1991, IARTEM's biennial international conferences have given a great opportunity for scholars from over the world to share experience in research on textbooks in different countries and from perspectives of different disciplines such as education, psychology, cultural studies, linguistics, political sciences and philosophy, etc. This introduction gives an overview of the conference and volume content.