Distributed Objects : : Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell / / ed. by Liana Chua, Mark Elliott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Born, Georgina,; Boutcher, Warren,; Chua, Liana,; Dell, Simon,; Elliott, Mark,; Gell, Alfred,; Gosden, Chris,; Hirsch, Eric,; Küchler, Susanne,; Tanner, Jeremy,; Thomas, Nicholas,
• HerausgeberIn: Chua, Liana,; Elliott, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION: ADVENTURES IN THE ART NEXUS --; CHAPTER 1 THREADS OF THOUGHT Reflections on Art and Agency --; CHAPTER 2 TECHNOLOGIES OF ROUTINE AND OF ENCHANTMENT --; CHAPTER 3 FIGURING OUT DEATH Sculpture and Agency at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Tomb of the First Emperor of China --; CHAPTER 4 THE NETWORK OF STANDARD STOPPAGES (C.1985) --; CHAPTER 5 GELL’S DUCHAMP/DUCHAMP’S GELL --; CHAPTER 6 MUSIC Ontology, Agency, Creativity --; CHAPTER 7 LITERARY ART AND AGENCY? Gell and the Magic of the Early Modern Book --; CHAPTER 8 ART, PERFORMANCE AND TIME’S PRESENCE Reflections on Temporality in Art and Agency --; CHAPTER 9 EPILOGUE --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857457431; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857457431
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Liana Chua, Mark Elliott.

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship. This volume brings together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of Gell’s work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the social sciences and humanities. Extending his theory into new territory – from music to literary technology and ontology to technological change – the contributors do not simply take stock, but also provoke, critically reassessing this important work while using it to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries.