Objects and imagination : perspectives on materialization and meaning / edited by ℗Øivind Fuglerud and Leon Wainwright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuglerud, Øivind, editor.

Wainwright, Leon, editor.

Series:

Material mediations ; Volume 3.

Material Mediations : People and Things in a World of Movement ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Social aspects.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : berghahn, 2015.

Summary:

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the ""material turn"" in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What resul

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Museums; Chapter 1 - Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation; Chapter 2 - Disconnecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance; Chapter 3 - Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space; Part II - Presence; Chapter 4 - Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money Amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea

Chapter 5 - Being There while Being Here: Long-Distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National RitualsChapter 6 - Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants; Chapter 7 - Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China; Chapter 8 - How Pictures Matter: Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana; Part III - Art; Chapter 9 - Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia

Chapter 10 - Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil NaduChapter 11 - An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the Artification of Whisky and Fashion; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782385660

1782385665

9781782385677

1782385673

OCLC:

903317671