Distributed Objects : : Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell /

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

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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-...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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