Pierre Lemonnier

Mundane Objects

Materiality and Non-Verbal Communication

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781611320572
• ISBN-10: 1611320577
• Artikelnr.: 39050904

Autorenporträt

Lemonnier, Pierre

Inhaltsangabe

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