ISBN:
1-930618-06-0
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1-930618-05-0
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0-85255-927-5
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0-85255-928-3
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 353 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [56]
Keywords:
Materielle Kultur Gabe
;
Gesellschaft, moderne
;
Handel
;
Kunst
Abstract:
Representing a new wave of thinking about material culture studies-a topic long overdue for reevaluation-the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and exchange theory and illuminate the changing patterns of cultural flow in an increasingly global economy and the cultural differences registered in "regimes of value." The Empire of Things includes an extensive interview with the late Annette B.Weiner, whose work on exchange theory still inspires contemporary material culture studies.The contributors deconstruct the traditional opposition between "gift" and "commodity" and between supposedly; "alienable" and "inalienable" objects in ceremonies of exchange-whether on the island of Sumba or among middle-class shoppers in North London. They show how objects can become symbols of national identity, in cases ranging from artworks in Australia to lost body parts of past Mexican presidents.They reveal how the movement of objects through different contexts, across borders, or through art exhibitions exposes contradictions and shifting meanings for different constituencies. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Empire of Things, Fred R. Myers -- Money is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an Indonesian Society, Webb Keane -- Alienable Gifts and Inalienable Commodities, Daniel Miller -- Elusive Property: The Personification of Mexican National Sovereignty, Claudio Lomnitz -- Appropriation/Appreciation: Settler Modernism in Australia and New Zealand, Nicholas Thomas -- The Wizards of Oz: Nation, State, and the Production of Aboriginal Fine Art, Fred R. Myers -- Rights of Passage: On the Liminal Identity of Art in the Border Zone, Christopher B. Steiner -- The Object of Translation: Notes on "Art" and Autonomy in a Postcolonial Context, Annie E. Coombes -- Reflections, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Art and Material Culture: A Conversation with Annette Weiner, Fred R. Myers and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblet --References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite315-340"School of American Research advanced seminar Material Culture: Habitats and Values, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1996" (letzte Seite)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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