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Practicing materiality / edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke.

Title
Practicing materiality / edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke.
Publication
  • Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Van Dyke, Ruth M.
Description
vi, 224 pages : illustations, maps; 23 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
Project Muse UPCC books.
Subject
  • Material culture
  • Anthropology > Methodology
  • Technology > Anthropological aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Materiality in practice: an introduction / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Talk to it : memory and material agency in the Arab-Alawite (Nusayri) community / Şule Can -- Replicating things, replicating identity: the movement of Chacoan ritual paraphernalia beyond the Chaco world / Erina Gruner -- Animacy of the everyday: materiality, bundling, and the production of quotidian ceramics / Tanya Chiykowski -- An empire of clay: ceramics and discipline in the early modern Portuguese empire / Rui Gomes Coelho -- Quotidian agency and imperial agendas : a study of Andean middle horizon Huamanga ceramics / Brittany Fullen -- The work they do : phenomenology and monumentality in the Late Archaic of Peru / Halona Young-Wolfe -- From banned bodies to political subjects : immigrants in protest bundles / Jessica Santos López -- Materiality as problem space / Mark W. Hauser.
ISBN
  • 9780816531271
  • 0816531277
LCCN
^^2015005910
OCLC
907272391
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library