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Images of power and the power of images / edited by Judith Kapferer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Space and place ; volume 7.
- Space and place ; volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society.
- Visual communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. From a range of perspectives-anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural-the contributors discuss road-making in Peru, mass housing in Britain, an unsettling
- Contents:
- Images of Power and the Power of Images; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction:; Chapter 1Twilight of the Enlightenment; Chapter 2Cementing Relations; Chapter 3Multifaceted Monolith; Chapter 4Folding and Enfolding Walls; Chapter 5Body Shock; Chapter 6The Symbolic Body and the Rhetoric of Power; Chapter 7The Limits of Metaphor; Chapter 8Images of Transgression; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published as a special issue or Social analysis, volume 54, issue 2.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857455154
- 085745515X
- OCLC:
- 871775362
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