ISBN:
9781409436430
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
Series Statement:
Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
Parallel Title:
Print version Hallam, Elizabeth Making and Growing : Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Social aspects
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Material culture
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Social aspects
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Material culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts and the latter as organisms, the book calls this distinction into question, examining the implications for our understanding of materials, design and creativity. Grounding their arguments in case studies from different regions and historical periods, the contributors to this volume show how making and growing give rise to co-produced and mutually modifying organisms and artefacts, including human persons. They attend to the properties of materials and to the forms of knowledge and sensory experience involved in these processes, and explore the dynamics of making and undoing, growing and decomposition. The book will be of broad interest to scholars in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, material culture studies, history and sociology
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Making and Growing: An Introduction -- 2 Silk Production: Moths, Mulberry and Metamorphosis -- 3 Between Nature and Art: Casting from Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe -- 4 Anatomopoeia -- 5 Artefacts and Bodies among Kuna People from Panamá -- 6 Designing Body-Pots in the Formative La Candelaria Culture, Northwest Argentina -- 7 Stitching Lives: A Family History of Making Caribou Skin Clothing in the Canadian Arctic -- 8 Gardening and Wellbeing: A View from the Ground -- 9 Making Plants and Growing Baskets -- 10 Skill and Aging: Perspectives from Three Generations of English Woodworkers -- 11 Movement in Making: An Apprenticeship with Glass and Fire -- 12 Growing Granite: The Recombinant Geologies of Sludge -- Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Making and Growing: An Introduction; 2 Silk Production: Moths, Mulberry and Metamorphosis; 3 Between Nature and Art: Casting from Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe; 4 Anatomopoeia; 5 Artefacts and Bodies among Kuna People from Panamá; 6 Designing Body-Pots in the Formative La Candelaria Culture, Northwest Argentina; 7 Stitching Lives: A Family History of Making Caribou Skin Clothing in the Canadian Arctic; 8 Gardening and Wellbeing: A View from the Ground; 9 Making Plants and Growing Baskets
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Skill and Aging: Perspectives from Three Generations of English Woodworkers11 Movement in Making: An Apprenticeship with Glass and Fire; 12 Growing Granite: The Recombinant Geologies of Sludge; Index
Note:
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