Miller Materiality

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8671-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

A collection of essays rethinking the current uses of material culture study in anthropology, including engagements with art, science, and technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Daniel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Meskell, Lynn

Rowlands, Michael

Myers, Fred R.

Engelke, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London. He is the author of many books, including The Sari (with Mukulika Banerjee); Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach; A Theory of Shopping; and The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (with Don Slater). He is the editor, most recently, of Home Possessions: Material Culture behind Closed Doors and Car Cultures.