The Material Subject (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion
Redaktion: Mohan, Urmila; Douny, Laurence

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Produktbeschreibung

The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000185409
• Artikelnr.: 60331573

Autorenporträt

Urmila Mohan is an anthropologist and curator of material culture and religion who researches textiles, practices and aesthetics in India and Indonesia. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK. Laurence Douny specialises in the anthropology and history of materials, techniques and design with a focus on West African wild silks. She is a Research Associate at the cluster 'Matters of Activity. Image Space Materials' at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1.Subjects, their bodies and their objects; Matter of work and
technology 2. Making do and wanting: The professional diver's predicament;
3. 'Management' and its refuse; 4. Clothing choices and questioning the
incorporation of habitus; Matter of heritage 5. Museum objects in motion:
Colonial leftovers and French cultural politics; 6. The material shaping of
women's subjectivities: Wild-silk textiles of the Marka-Dafing as a
cultural heritage; Matter of politics 7. Politics matters: Matière à
Politique; 8. Chronicles of a moral war: Ascetic subjectivation and
formation of the Javanese state; Matter of religion 9. Opening and closing
gestures: Weaving rituals that give and sustain life; 10. Devotion on the
home altar as 'efficacious intimacy' in a Hindu group; Matter of knowledge
11. Anthropology of knowledge transmission beyond dichotomies: Learning and
subjectivation among watchmakers in Switzerland; 12. The enskilled subject:
Two paths to becoming a skilled person among the Paiwan indigenous people
of Taiwan; 13 Afterword: Matter(s) of material culture