Practicing materiality / edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Dyke, Ruth M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Technology--Anthropological aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3233-8

OCLC:

921007968