Daniel Miller

Materiality

Herausgeber: Miller, Daniel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 135mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335306
• ISBN-10: 0822335301
• Artikelnr.: 21198363

Autorenporträt

Daniel Miller, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

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