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Materiality /

Exploring the varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present, this book assesses the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Miller, Daniel, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Objects in the mirror appear closer than they are / Lynn Meskell
  • A materialist approach to materiality / Michael Rowlands
  • Some properties of art and culture : ontologies of the image and economics of exchange / Fred Myers
  • Sticky subjects and sticky objects : the substance of African Christian healing / Matthew Engelke
  • Does money matter? : abstraction and substitution in alternative financial forms / Bill Maurer
  • The materiality of finance theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki
  • Signs are not the garb of meaning : on the social analysis of material things / Webb Keane
  • Materiality and cognition : the changing face of things / Susanne Küchler
  • Beyond mediation : three new material registers and their consequences / Nigel Thrift
  • Things happen : or, from which moment does that object come? / Christopher Pinney.