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Materiality / edited by Daniel Miller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, c2005Description: 294 pISBN:
  • 0822335301 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822335425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.46 22
LOC classification:
  • GN406 .M38 2005
Contents:
Materiality : an introduction / Daniel Miller -- Objects in the mirror appear closer than they are / Lynn Meskell -- A materialist approach to materiality / Michael Rowlands -- Some properties of art and culture : ontologies of the image and economies of exchange / Fred Myers -- Sticky subjects and sticky objects : the substance of African Christian healing / Matthew Engelke -- Does money matter? : abstraction and substitution in alternative financial forms / Bill Maurer -- The materiality of finance theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- Signs are not the garb of meaning : on the social analysis of material things / Webb Keane -- Materiality and cognition : the changing face of things / Susanne Kuchler -- Beyond mediation : three new material registers and their consequences / Nigel Thrift -- Things happen : or, from which moment does that object come? / Christopher Pinney.
Summary: The essays in Materiality explore varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present. In assessing the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity, they signal the need to de-center the social within social anthropology in order to make room for the material.
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Format: Paperback

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Materiality : an introduction / Daniel Miller -- Objects in the mirror appear closer than they are / Lynn Meskell -- A materialist approach to materiality / Michael Rowlands -- Some properties of art and culture : ontologies of the image and economies of exchange / Fred Myers -- Sticky subjects and sticky objects : the substance of African Christian healing / Matthew Engelke -- Does money matter? : abstraction and substitution in alternative financial forms / Bill Maurer -- The materiality of finance theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- Signs are not the garb of meaning : on the social analysis of material things / Webb Keane -- Materiality and cognition : the changing face of things / Susanne Kuchler -- Beyond mediation : three new material registers and their consequences / Nigel Thrift -- Things happen : or, from which moment does that object come? / Christopher Pinney.

The essays in Materiality explore varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present. In assessing the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity, they signal the need to de-center the social within social anthropology in order to make room for the material.

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