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Objects and imagination : perspectives on materialization and meaning /
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the "material turn" in the arts, humanitie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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| Colección: | Material mediations : People and things in a world of movement ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I
- Museums
- Chapter 1
- Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation
- Chapter 2
- Disconnecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance
- Chapter 3
- Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space
- Part II
- Presence
- Chapter 4
- Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money Amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea
- Chapter 5
- Being There while Being Here: Long-Distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals
- Chapter 6
- Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants
- Chapter 7
- Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China
- Chapter 8
- How Pictures Matter: Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana
- Part III
- Art
- Chapter 9
- Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia
- Chapter 10
- Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu
- Chapter 11
- An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the Artification of Whisky and Fashion
- Contributors
- Index.