Materiality

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A collection of essays rethinking the current uses of material culture study in anthropology, including engagements with art, science, and technology.

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Full title :Materiality.

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A collection of essays rethinking the current uses of material culture study in anthropology, including engagements with art, science, and technology.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:North Carolina
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

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Description:1 online resource (303 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822386711, 0822386712, 9780822335306, 0822335301
oclc:ocn841913960
LC Classification:GN406.M38 2005
Dewey Decimal:306.4/6

Materiality: An Introduction -- Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are -- A Materialist Approach to Materiality -- Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange -- Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing -- Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms -- The Materiality of Finance Theory -- Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things -- Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things.

Beyond Mediation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences -- Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? -- Contributors -- Index.