ISBN:
9781782385677
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
270 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 3
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the "material turn" in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Øivind Fuglerud & Leon Wainwright -- PART I: MUSEUMS -- Chapter 1. Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation -- Sylvia S. Kasprycki -- Chapter 2. De-connecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance -- Peter Bjerregaard -- Chapter 3. Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space -- Saphinaz-Amal Naguib -- PART II: PRESENCE -- Chapter 4. Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea -- Anders Emil Rasmussen -- Chapter 5. Being there while Being here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals -- Stine Bruland -- Chapter 6. Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants -- Arne Aleksej Perminow -- Chapter 7. Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China -- Katherine Swancutt -- Chapter 8. How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana -- Birgit Meyer -- PART III: ART -- Chapter 9. Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia -- Fiona Magowan -- Chapter 10. Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu -- Amit Desai and Maruška Svašek -- Chapter 11. An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the 'Artification' of Whisky and Fashion -- Tereza Kuldova -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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