Images of Power and the Power of Images : : Control, Ownership, and Public Space / / ed. by Judith Kapferer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Glendinning, Miles,; Handelman, Don,; Harvey, Penelope,; Kapferer, Judith,; Linke, Uli,; Vadakkiniyil, Dinesan,; Verdi, Laura,; Weiss, Allen S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kapferer, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Space and Place ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: Images of Power and the Power of Images --; Chapter 1. Twilight of the Enlightenment --; Chapter 2. Cementing Relations --; Chapter 3. Multifaceted Monolith --; Chapter 4. Folding and Enfolding Walls --; Chapter 5. Body Shock --; Chapter 6. The Symbolic Body and the Rhetoric of Power --; Chapter 7. The Limits of Metaphor --; Chapter 8. Images of Transgression --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857455154; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857455154
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Judith Kapferer.

Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. From a range of perspectives—anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural—the contributors discuss road-making in Peru, mass housing in Britain, an unsettling traveling exhibition, and an art fair in London; we explore the meaning of walls in Jerusalem, a Zen garden in Japan, and religious themes in Europe and India. Literally and figuratively, these situations influence the ways in which ordinary people interpret their everyday worlds. By deconstructing the taken for- granted definitions of social value (democracy, equality, individualism, fortune), the authors reveal the ideological role of imagery and imagination in a globalized political context.