ISBN:
1-78735-750-3
,
978-1-78735-750-1
,
978-1-78735-749-5
,
1-78735-749-X
,
978-1-78735-751-8/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
,
978-1-78735-752-5/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
,
978-1-78735-751-8/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 262 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Materielle Kultur Methodologie
;
Netzwerkanalyse
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg`s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as two interrelated modes in which an entity is, or more precisely - is becoming, in the world. The question, thus, is how these two modes of becoming relate and fold into each other. Throughout the four-year research process that led to this book, the authors approached this question not just from a theoretical perspective; taking the suggestion of 'thinking through things' literally and methodologically seriously, the first two workshops were dedicated to practical, hands-on exercises working with things. From these workshops a series of installations emerged, straddling the boundaries of art and academia. These installations served as artistic-academic interventions during the final symposium and are featured alongside the other academic contributions to this volume... - Provided by the publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 1, Conceptual grounds. In the gathering shadows of material things ; Doing/changing things/us - Part 2, Movement and growth. Becoming imperial: the politicisation of the gift in Atlantic Africa ; How pilgrimage souvenirs turn to religious remittances and powerful medicines ; Invocating the gods or the apotheosis of the Barbie Doll ; Stallions of the Indian Ocean ; Labelling, packaging, scanning: paths and diversions of mobile phones in the Andes ; Establishing intimacy through mobile phone connections -- Part 3, Dissolution and traces. Smoky relations: beyond dichotomies of substance on the Tibetan Plateau ; What remains: the things that fall to the side of everyday life ; Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan ; Towards a fragmented ethnography? Walking along debris in Armero, Colombia ; Remembering and non-remembering among the Yanomami ; The matter of erasure: making room for Utopia at Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, Mexico City ; Refugee life jackets thrown off but not away: connecting materialities in upcycling initiatives ; Tamga tash: a tale of stones, stories, and travelling immobiles.
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