Objects and Imagination : : Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning /

Objects and Imagination : : Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning / / ed. by Øivind Fuglerud, Leon Wainwright.

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Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and soc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Bjerregaard, Peter,
Bruland, Stine,
Desai, Amit,
Fuglerud, Øivind,
Kasprycki, Sylvia S.,
Kuldova, Tereza,
Magowan, Fiona,
Meyer, Birgit,
Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal,
Perminow, Arne Aleksej,
Rasmussen, Anders Emil,
Svašek, Maruška,
Swancutt, Katherine,
Wainwright, Leon,
HerausgeberIn:
Fuglerud, Øivind,
Wainwright, Leon,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Museums
  • 1 Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation
  • 2 Disconnecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance
  • 3 Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space
  • Part II. Presence
  • 4 Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea
  • 5 Being There while Being Here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals
  • 6 Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants
  • 7 Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China
  • 8 How Pictures Matter: Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana
  • Part III. Art
  • 9 Art as Empathy IMAGING TRANSFERS OF MEANING AND EMOTION IN URBAN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA
  • 10 Transvisionary Imaginations Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu
  • 11 An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the Artification of Whisky and Fashion
  • Contributors
  • Index

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