Reconceptualising material culture in the tricontinent : when objects write back / edited by Minu Susan Koshy and Roshin George.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George, Roshin, editor.

Koshy, Minu Susan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture. .

Material culture--Africa.

Material culture.

Material culture--Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This edited volume is the first to engage with material culture in the Tricontinent comprising Asia, Africa and Latin America, interrogating how objects help trace an alternate history of these locales. The potential of material culture to redefine postcolonial subjectivities is explored here through an analysis of various objects, both tangible and intangible. The book serves to subvert Eurocentric formulations of material culture and arrives at a uniquely Tricontinental model of material culture studies. The essays gathered here engage with an entire gamut of issues pertaining to the perception and significance of object-oriented ontologies from a multifaceted perspective. The book offers a glimpse into the vast field of material cultural studies through an engagement with various geopolitical locales in Asia, Africa and Latin America, thereby familiarizing the reader with the nuances of non-European material culture(s).

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Meaning of Objects in a Naturalistic Lebenswelt

The Biography of a Stolen Benin Bronze Casket

Locating Latin American Matters through Francisco De Goya's Linda Maestra

No Signs and Graffiti in Contemporary Medellín

When a House is More Than a Home

"Matter Out of Place"

Decentring the Centre

Goalporia Folksongs as an Epistemic Cultural Resource for Understanding the Postcolonial Uncanny

Biographies of Yaksha

Food and Food Habits of the Tribals of Chotanagpur in Colonial India

Conflict between Rights and Obligations in Food Commodification

"They Too Have a Story"

The Making of a "Transgressive" Substance

Perambulating Reeds

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Koshy, Minu Susan Reconceptualising Material Culture in the Tricontinent

ISBN:

9781527592841