Kotrosits Maia Kotrosits

Lives of Objects (eBook, ePUB)

Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change.Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects, looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture, she examines objects of attachment relationships, ideas, and beliefs that live on in the psyche and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life. Engaging with classical studies, history, anthropology, and literary, gender, and queer studies, Kotrosits shows how these disciplines address historical knowledge and how an expanded definition of materiality can help us make connections between antiquity and the contemporary world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226707617
• Artikelnr.: 72448051

Autorenporträt

Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion at Denison University and author of Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging.