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The cultural power of personal objects : traditional accounts and new perspectives /
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as "persons," or as objects with "personality"--th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Traditional accounts. Mereology : wholes, parts, and the big thicket / Pete A. Y. Gunter ; Personality in seagoing ships / Marc M. Anderson ; Personified objects and objectified persons in Ancient Egypt / Martin Pehal ; Seeing and time : personal divinity in the object of Hindu devotion / John W. August III ; Convergence and divergence of spirit : tsukumogami and the personality of objects / Kevin C. Taylor ; The journey of Javanese keris / Alan G. Maisey ; Cherokee nonhuman persons in dual realms / Carrie McLachlan ; The quilt as personal object / Sasha L. Biro
- Part 2: New perspectives. The new materialism : a critique / Michael Jackson ; Constituting personal objects, constituting persons / Dwayne A. Tunstall ; A personalized cultural world : a Cassireran phenomenology of personalized intuition / Jared Kemling ; The comfort of things : personal objects, possession, dwelling, and the desire to be god in Sartre and Levinas / James McLachlan ; Have we effectively made money a person and ourselves its corporeal embodiment? / Helen Grela ; Wampum, person, and the life of exchange / Randall Auxier ; How my piano uses Gendlin's Focusing Method / Ralph D. Ellis ; Meditating on the vitality of the musical object : a spiritual exercise drawn from Richard Wagner's Metaphysics of Music / Eli Kramer ; Bring out your dead : human bodies, cultural objects, and personality / Laura J. Mueller ; Sex robots and solipsism : towards a culture of empty contact / Charles W. Harvey.