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Materiality /

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief-whether religious or secular-have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the materia...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Engelke, Matthew (Contribuidor), Keane, Webb (Contribuidor), Küchler, Susanne (Contribuidor), Maurer, Bill (Contribuidor), Meskell, Lynn (Contribuidor), Miller, Daniel (Contribuidor, Editor ), Miyazaki, Hirokazu (Contribuidor), Myers, Fred R., Myers, Fred (Contribuidor), Pinney, Christopher (Contribuidor), Rowlands, Michael (Contribuidor), Thrift, Nigel (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2005]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Materiality: An Introduction
  • Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are
  • A Materialist Approach to Materiality
  • Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange
  • Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing
  • Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms
  • The Materiality of Finance Theory
  • Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things
  • Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things
  • Beyond Mediation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences
  • Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come?
  • Contributors
  • Index