Objects and materials

Objects and materials: a Routledge companion

by Casella, Eleanor Conlin Evans, Gillian Harvey, Penny Knox, Hannah McLean, Christine Silva, Elizabeth B. Thoburn, Nicholas Woodward, Kath

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There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and materials found at centre stage, and asks: what matters about objects?Objects and Materials explores the field, providing succinct summary accounts of contemporary scholarship, along with a wealth of …

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  • Full title :Objects and materials : a Routledge companion / edited by Penny Harvey, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Gillian evans, Hannah Knox, Christine McLean, Elizabeth B. Silva, Nicholas Thoburn and Kath Woodward.

Summary

There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and materials found at centre stage, and asks: what matters about objects?Objects and Materials explores the field, providing succinct summary accounts of contemporary scholarship, along with a wealth of new research investigating the capacity of objects to shape, unsettle and exceed e.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (440 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317577737, 1317577736, 1306972361, 9781306972369, 9780203093610, 0203093615
  • oclc:ocn884017135
  • LC Classification:GN406
  • Dewey Decimal:930.1

Table of Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Objects and materials: an introduction; PART I Material qualities; Introduction; 2 An interview with artist Helen Barff; 3 A poor workman blames his tools or how irrigation systems structure human actions; 4 The material construction of state power: artifacts and the new Rome; 5 The material politics of solid waste: decentralization and integrated systems; 6 From stone to god and back again: why we need both materials and materiality; 7 New materials and their impact on the material world.

8 Decay, temporality and the politics of conservation: an archaeological approach to material studiesPART II Affective objects; Introduction; 9 Boxing films: sensation and affect; 10 Tactile compositions; 11 Bodies and cadavers; 12 Domination and desire: the paradox of Egyptian human remains in museums; 13 A dream of falling: philosophy and family violence; 14 Sarah Kofman's father's pen and Bracha Ettinger's mother's spoon: trauma, transmission and the strings of virtuality; 15 Spectral objects: material links to difficult pasts for adoptive families; PART III Unsettling objects.

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Subjects

Alltagskultur Art objects ceremonial objects Culture matérielle HISTORY -- Ancient Material culture material culture (discipline) Materiell kultur Objektkunst Objets d'art Objets rituels Sachkultur

Writers

Casella, Eleanor Conlin Evans, Gillian Harvey, Penny Knox, Hannah McLean, Christine Silva, Elizabeth B. Thoburn, Nicholas Woodward, Kath

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