ISBN:
9783030826772
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xix, 302 pages)
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Illustrations, diagrams
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.0952
Keywords:
Idols and images
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Popular culture
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Diagrams -- Chapter 1: Idology in Transcultural Perspective: Anthropological Investigations of Popular Idolatry -- Now and Then, Here and There -- Technology and Animation -- Overview of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: On Popular Idolatry: A Reflexive Symbological Spin -- Introduction: Revisiting Our Mission -- Spinning Idology: Probing the Web of Idol Symbolism -- Meta-framing Popular Idolatry -- Idols as Tricksters -- Inspirations from Symbolic Anthropology: Liminality and Communitas -- The Forest of Idols -- Communitas of Liminoid Pop-Idols -- Revisiting the Symbology of Popular Idolatry: Idol and Agency -- Acting with Idols -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Idols that Speak: How Psyche and Material Culture Co-construct Each Other -- Introduction: Spirits from the Past -- Definition and Theoretical Agenda -- First Theme: Reuniting Mind and Material Culture-Extended Mind Thesis -- Second Theme: Vestiges of an Earlier Mentality -- Third Theme: The Socially Integrative Function of Idols -- Idols of the Bicameral Period -- A Theory of Idolatry: Vertical and Horizontal Reinforcement -- Old Testament Terms for Idols -- Idols of the Post-bicameral Period -- Conclusion: Lessons About the Agency and Social Organizational Power of Material Culture -- The Abstraction of Idols: The Decline and Fragmentation of Super-Religious Authorization -- After the Gods Grew Silent: Post-bicameral Idols -- The New Gods of the Nation and Political Ideology -- Consumutopian Idols of Belonging and Belongings -- Searching for New Idols in "Personality" -- References -- Chapter 4: Idol Economics: Television, Affective and Virtual Models in Japan -- Introduction -- The Television Model -- The Affective Model -- The Virtual Model -- Conclusion -- References.
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