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Exploring materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond /

Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities....

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Schorch, Philipp (Éditeur intellectuel), Saxer, Martin, 1971- (Éditeur intellectuel), Elders, Marlen (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : UCL Press, 2020.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part 1, Conceptual grounds. In the gathering shadows of material things ; Doing/changing things/us
  • Part 2, Movement and growth. Becoming imperial: the politicisation of the gift in Atlantic Africa ; How pilgrimage souvenirs turn to religious remittances and powerful medicines ; Invocating the gods or the apotheosis of the Barbie Doll ; Stallions of the Indian Ocean ; Labelling, packaging, scanning: paths and diversions of mobile phones in the Andes ; Establishing intimacy through mobile phone connections
  • Part 3, Dissolution and traces. Smoky relations: beyond dichotomies of substance on the Tibetan Plateau ; What remains: the things that fall to the side of everyday life ; Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan ; Towards a fragmented ethnography? Walking along debris in Armero, Colombia ; Remembering and non-remembering among the Yanomami ; The matter of erasure: making room for Utopia at Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, Mexico City ; Refugee life jackets thrown off but not away: connecting materialities in upcycling initiatives ; Tamga tash: a tale of stones, stories, and travelling immobiles.