Mundane objects : materiality and non-verbal communication /

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This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in non-verbal communication, both in non-ritua...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lemonnier, Pierre, 1948-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2012.
Collection:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage ; 10.
Sujets:
Technology > Social aspects.
Material culture.
Nonverbal communication.
Nonverbal Communication
Culture matérielle.
Communication non verbale.
material culture (discipline)
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Sachkultur
Gebrauchsgegenstand
Ethnologie
Symbolfunktion
Nichtverbale Kommunikation
Society.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Too sturdy to be mundane : a baruya garden fence
  • Entwined by nature : eels, traps, and ritual
  • The anthropological complexity of unremarkable drums
  • Artefacts as images or how to relate relations
  • Racing-cars, dinky toys, and aging boys
  • What materiality means : objects as resonators
  • What's new? : blurring anthropological borders but keeping "technology" in mind"
  • The paradox of marginal changes.

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