ISBN:
978-1-78735-869-0 (PDF)
,
978-1-78735-872-0 (epub)
,
978-1-78735-873-7 (mobi)
,
978-1-78735-871-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
,
978-1-78735-870-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 341 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen (farbig)
Edition:
First published
Edition:
Impermanence.pdf
Keywords:
Anthropologie Anthropologie, medizinische
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Archäologie
;
Museumskunde
;
Ethnographie
;
Buddhismus
;
Atheismus
;
Weltanschauung
;
kulturelles Eigentum
;
Alkohol
;
Migration
;
Tod
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Asmat
;
Jain
;
Tibet
;
Tansania
;
Papua-Neuguinea
;
Melanesien
;
Thailand
;
Kirgisien
;
Pangdatsang (Familie) [Leben und Werk]
;
Card, Claudia [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engages with an emergent body of social theory emphasizing flux and transformation, and brings this into a dialogue with other traditions of thought and practice, notably Buddhism that has sustained a long-lasting and sophisticated meditation on impermanence.In cases drawn from all over the world, this volume investigates the significance of impermanence in such diverse contexts as social death, atheism, alcoholism, migration, ritual, fashion, oncology, museums, cultural heritage and art. The authors draw on a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, Buddhist studies, cultural geography and museology. This volume also includes numerous photographs, artworks and poems that evocatively communicate notions and experiences of impermanence. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Living with and against impermanence -- Part 2 States of being and becoming -- Part 3 Structures and practices of care -- Part 4 Curating impermanence -- Index
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