"In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological sates, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, …
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"Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams. Each of these approaches is justified by the nature of the image in question as well as the way viewers engage with it. …
What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate - technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What wou…
Global gifts and the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia / Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello -- Portraits, turbans and cuirasses : material exchange between Mantua and the Ottomans at the end of the fifteenth century / Antonia Gatward Cevizli…
