Surfaces : transformations of body, materials and earth / edited by Mike Anusas and Cristián Simonetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anusas, Mike, editor.

Simonetti, Cristián, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surfaces (Philosophy).

Surfaces--Social aspects.

Surfaces.

Material culture.

Perception.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Mike Anusas is Lecturer in Design & Screen Cultures, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Originally having trained and worked as a designer and engineer, he retrained as a social anthropologist to teach and research at the intersection of design and anthropology, exploring relationships between skilled practices, form-making and environmental perception. Cristiǹ Simonetti is Assistant Professor in Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His work concentrates on how bodily gestures and environmental forces relate to notions of time in science, the topic of a monograph he published in 2018 also with Routledge, entitled Sentient Conceptualisations. Feeling for Time in the Sciences of the Past.

Contents:

Introduction: Turning to surfaces / Mike Anusas and Cristián Simonetti

On opening the book of surfaces / Tim Ingold

Air, smoke and fumes in Aymara and Mapuche rituals / Juan Carlos Skewes and Debbie Guerra

In light and shadow : surfaces and polarities in rituals of second burial in central east Madagascar / Christel Mattheeuws

Re-animating skin : probing the surface in taxidermic practice / Petra Tjitske Kalshoven

The temporality of surfaces / Cristián Simonetti

Threshold as social surface / Ray Lucas

Vital surfaces and the making of urban architecture / Anuradha Chatterjee

On the substance of surfaces : situating materials and design in Melanesian environments / Graeme Were

On knitted surfaces-in-the-making / Lydia Maria Arantes

A life surficial : design and beyond / Mike Anusas

Epilogue / Susanne Küchler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Surfaces

ISBN:

9781315646947

1315646943

9781317296522

1317296524

9781317296539

1317296532

9781317296515

1317296516

Publisher Number:

99984096615

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.