Images of Power and the Power of Images : : Control, Ownership, and Public Space /

Images of Power and the Power of Images : : Control, Ownership, and Public Space / / 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 relat...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (164 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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