Practicing materiality / / edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke.

"Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications"--Provided by publisher.

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Place / Publishing House:Tucson : : The University of Arizona Press,, [2015]
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (231 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : materiality in practice / Ruth M. Van Dyke
  • Chapter 1. Talk to it : memory and material agency in the Arab-Alawite (Nusayri) community / Sule Can
  • Chapter 2. Replicating things, replicating identity : the movement of Chacoan ritual paraphernalia beyond the Chaco world / Erina Gruner
  • Chapter 3. Animacy of the everyday : materiality, bundling, and the production of quotidian ceramics / Tanya Chiykowski
  • Chapter 4. An empire of clay : ceramics and discipline in the early modern Portuguese empire / Rui Gomes Coelho
  • Chapter 5. Quotidian agency and imperial agendas : a study of Andean middle horizon Huamanga ceramics / Brittany Fullen
  • Chapter 6. The work they do : phenomenology and monumentality in the Late Archaic of Peru / Halona Young-Wolfe
  • Chatper 7. From banned bodies to political subjects : immigrants in protest bundles / Jessica Santos
  • Chapter 8. Materiality as problem space / Mark Hauser.