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Practicing Materiality

Title
Practicing Materiality [electronic resource] / edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke.
Publication
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Van Dyke, Ruth M.
  • Project Muse.
Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Summary
"Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications"--Provided by publisher.
Uniform Title
  • Practicing Materiality (Online)
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject
  • Technology > Anthropological aspects
  • Anthropology > Methodology
  • Material culture
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Introduction : materiality in practice / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Chapter 1. Talk to it : memory and material agency in the Arab-Alawite (Nusayri) community / Sule Can -- Chapter 2. Replicating things, replicating identity : the movement of Chacoan ritual paraphernalia beyond the Chaco world / Erina Gruner -- Chapter 3. Animacy of the everyday : materiality, bundling, and the production of quotidian ceramics / Tanya Chiykowski -- Chapter 4. An empire of clay : ceramics and discipline in the early modern Portuguese empire / Rui Gomes Coelho -- Chapter 5. Quotidian agency and imperial agendas : a study of Andean middle horizon Huamanga ceramics / Brittany Fullen -- Chapter 6. The work they do : phenomenology and monumentality in the Late Archaic of Peru / Halona Young-Wolfe -- Chatper 7. From banned bodies to political subjects : immigrants in protest bundles / Jessica Santos -- Chapter 8. Materiality as problem space / Mark Hauser.
OCLC
ssj0001558232
Title
Practicing Materiality [electronic resource] / edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke.
Imprint
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Van Dyke, Ruth M.
Project Muse.
LCCN
2015005910
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