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The inbetweenness of things : materializing mediation and movement between worlds / edited by Paul Basu

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc [2017], 2017

1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 275 pages)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Basu, Paul : Inbetweenness of things. - London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, [2017] (Druck-Ausgabe)

1-4742-6478-6 (electronic publication); 1-4742-6480-8 (electronic book); 978-1-4742-6478-5 (electronic publication); 978-1-4742-6480-8 (electronic book); 978-1-4742-6478-5 (electronic book)

978-1-4742-6479-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4742-6479-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4742-6477-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4742-6477-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4742-6477-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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bisacsh: PSY 031000

LOC-SH: Material culture -- Philosophy ; Communication and culture ; Anthropological linguistics

Material culture ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Anthropological linguistics ; Communication and culture

"We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions -- which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose -- and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a series of objects that defy neat classification. In the process, it explores how 'things' mediate and travel between conceptual worlds in diverse cultural, geographic and temporal contexts, and how they embody this mediation and movement in their form. With an impressive range of international authors, each essay grounds explorations of cutting-edge theory in concrete case studies. An innovative, thought-provoking read for students and researchers in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies and art history which will transform the way readers think about objects."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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3 The buzz of displacement: Liminality among Burmese court objects in Oxford, London and YangonOrientations; Separation; Liminality; Reincorporations; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; 4 Object and spirit agency: The G'psgolox poles as mediators within and between colonized and colonizer cultures; Introduction; The journey of the G'psgolox poles in and between cultures; The power of objects; Spirit agency; The G'psgolox poles and their spirits; Notes; References; Masquerades and mediation; 5 At the centre of everything? A Nigerian mask and its histories; Meeting Onogidi.