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The lives of objects : material culture, experience, and the real in the history of early Christianity / Maia Kotrosits.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kotrosits, Maia, author.
- Series:
- Class 200. New studies in religion.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Class 200. New studies in religion
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Material culture.
- Civilization, Greco-Roman.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Judaism--History.
- Judaism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects, looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture, she examines objects of attachment-relationships, ideas, and beliefs that live on in the psyche-and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Lives of Objects
- 1 Objects Made Real: The Art of Description
- 2 Citizens of Fallen Cities: Ruins, Diaspora, and the Material Unconscious
- 3 Histories Unwritten in Stone: The Frustrations of Memorialization
- 4 Tertullian of Carthage and the Materiality of Power (with Carly Daniel-Hughes)
- 5 The Perils of Translation: Martyrs’ Last Words and the Cultural Materiality of Speech
- 6 Penetration and Its Discontents: Agency, Touch, and Objects of Desire
- 7 Darkening the Discipline: Fantasies of Efficacy and the Art of Redescription
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-226-70761-X
- OCLC:
- 1195900251
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