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The inbetweenness of things : materializing mediation and movement between worlds /
"We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western cl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The inbetweenness of things; A cabinet of curiosities; Fetish; Rhizome; Gift; Prism; References; Museums as sites of inbetweenness; 2 The inbetweenness of the vitrine: Three parerga of a feather headdress; The plume, the vitrine and the parergon; Vitrine 1: Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, 1595; Vitrine 2: Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, 2012; Vitrine 3: Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1940; Conclusion
- smashing the vitrines?; Note; References.
- 3 The buzz of displacement: Liminality among Burmese court objects in Oxford, London and YangonOrientations; Separation; Liminality; Reincorporations; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; 4 Object and spirit agency: The G'psgolox poles as mediators within and between colonized and colonizer cultures; Introduction; The journey of the G'psgolox poles in and between cultures; The power of objects; Spirit agency; The G'psgolox poles and their spirits; Notes; References; Masquerades and mediation; 5 At the centre of everything? A Nigerian mask and its histories; Meeting Onogidi.
- The mask and its attachmentsOvert male authority and covert female power; From ekuecici to ekuobanyi; Onogidi's genealogy; Ownership and performance; Ec'ane, the 'feast of women': The ritual cycle and the marking of time; Ec'ane, Onogidi, performance and inter-lineage collaboration; Emblematic or inbetween?; References; 6 Amòdu and the material manifestation of Eégún; The cloth closest to the masquerade is called Jépè; Categories and divisions; Gesture; Manifestation and the productive inbetween; Note; References; Syncretism, intercession and iconoclash.
- 7 Desire, imitation and ambiguity in Asmat sculptureAcknowledgement; References; 8 Animating relationships: Inca conopa and modern illa as mediating objects; Social relations between people and things: Mediating objects; Illa: The sympathetic communicative power of objects; Conopa: The Inca state's insertion within household rituals; Seek and destroy: La Extirpación de la Idolotría en el Perú; Display objects: Conopa and illa as museum accessions; Objects are always inbetween; Acknowledgements; References; 9 Visual diplomacy: Art circulation and iconoclashes in the Kingdom of Bamum.
- International relations and material exchangesCompetitive displays and commercial entrepreneurship; Ambiguous objects and iconoclashes; Semantic brokerage and canonical inventions; Blurred boundaries and contaminated taxonomies; Notes; References; Hybridity in form and function; 10 Mediating between Mayas and the art market: The traditional-yet-contemporary carved gourd vessel; History and usage of gourds; The inbetweenness of carved gourds; Agency, messages and mediation; Conclusion; Notes; References; 11 Queen Victoria's Samoan bonnet; Introduction; The Samoan bonnet; Turtleshell.