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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London. He is the author of many books, including The Sari (with Mukulika Banerjee); Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach; A Theory of Shopping; and The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (with Don Slater). He is the editor, most recently, of Home Possessions: Material Culture behind Closed Doors and Car Cultures. Klappentext "This is first-class scholarship: lively, consequential, engaging, informed, and lucid. Daniel Miller and his colleagues explore--with imagination, ethnographic insight, and remarkable clarity--a range of related issues central to current debates within and beyond cultural anthropology."--Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz Zusammenfassung A collection of essays rethinking the current uses of material culture study in anthropology! including engagements with art! science! and technology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Materiality: An Introduction / Daniel Miller 1 Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are / Lynn Meskell 51 A Materialist Approach to Materiality / Michael Rowlands 72 Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange / Fred Myers 88 Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing / Matthew Engelke 118 Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms / Bill Maurer 140 The Materiality of Finance Theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki 165 Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things / Webb Keane 182 Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things / Susanne Kuchler 206 Beyond Meditation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences / Nigel Thrift 231 Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? / Christopher Pinney 256 Contributors 273 Index 277
