The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book investigates the dynamic constellation of religion, sensation, and materiality, exploring the interpretive worlds of sensory phenomena in material practices of religions. Under the rubric of "making sense…
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: approaching language materially Shalini Shankar and Jillian R. Cavanaugh; 2. Curated conversation: materiality: it's the stuff! Webb Keane and Michael Silverstein; Part I. Texts, Objects, Mediality: 3. Essay: Japan's trendy word …
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellect…
This volume is the first comparative history that studies the practice of impagination across different ages and civilizations. By impagination we mean the act of placing and arranging spatially textual and other information onto a material bearer that could be made of a variety…
This book is the first comprehensive work focusing on lived ancient religious communication in Roman Dacia. Testing for the first time the "Lived Ancient Religion" approach in terms of a peripheral province from the Danubian area, this work looks at the role of "sacralised" spac…
This book is the first comprehensive work focusing on lived ancient religious communication in Roman Dacia. Testing for the first time the?Lived Ancient Religion? approach in terms of a peripheral province from the Danubian area, this work looks at the role of?sacralised? spaces…
"In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tack…