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National Matters : Materiality, Culture, and Nationalism /

National Matters investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice. Examining a range of "things"-from art objects, clay fragments, and broken stones to clothing, food, and urban green space-the contributors to this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zubrzycki, Geneviève (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction. Matter and Meaning: A Cultural Sociology of Nationalism
  • 1. Artisans and the Construction of the French State: The Political Role of the Louvre's Workshops
  • 2. In, On, and Of the Inviolable Soil: Pottery Fragments and the Materiality of Italian Nationhood
  • 3. Raw Materials: Natural Resources, Technological Discourse, and the Making of Canadian Nationalism
  • 4. Simultaneously Worlds Apart: Placing National Diversity on Display at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
  • 5. A Brief History of Sweat: Inscribing "National Feeling" On and Through a Football Jersey
  • 6. That Banal Object of Nationalism: "Old Stones" as Heritage in the Early Days of French Public Television
  • 7. The Mythical Power of Everyday Objects: The Material Culture of Radical Nationalism in Postsocialist Hungary
  • 8. Engaging Objects: A Phenomenology of the Tea Ceremony and Japaneseness
  • 9. Traces and Steps: Expanding Polishness through a Jewish Sensorium?
  • 10. A Temple of Social Hope? Tempelhof Airport in Berlin and Its Transformation
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index