Mundane Objects - Critical Cultural Heritage Series Book 10

Informationen zum Autor Lemonnier, Pierre Klappentext This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. Zusammenfassung This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 Too Sturdy To Be Mundane: A Baruya Garden Fence; Chapter 2 Entwined by Nature: Eels, Traps, and Ritual; Chapter 3 The Anthropological Complexity of Unremarkable Drums; Chapter 4 Artefacts as Images or How to Relate Relations; Chapter 5 Race Cars, Dinky Toys, and Aging Boys; Chapter 6 What Materiality Means: Objects as Resonators; Chapter 7 What’s New? Blurring Anthropological Borders but Keeping “Technology” in Mind; Chapter 8 The Paradox of Marginal Changes;

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• Autori: Pierre Lemonnier
• Editore: Turpin Eurospan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.10.2013
• EAN: 9781611320572
• ISBN: 978-1-61132-057-2
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Serie: Critical Cultural Heritage; UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series; UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series; Ucl Institute of Archaeology C
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria