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Material Identities
Author | : Joanna Sofaer |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780470693285 |
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Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities. Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world. Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture. Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design. Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class. Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.
Textiles as National Heritage Identities Politics and Material Culture
Author | : Gabriele Mentges,Lola Shamukhitdinova |
Publsiher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783830986096 |
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The edited volume discusses the role of textile heritage in relation to the dynamics of nation building, cultural identity, politics, economy and the globalization of markets. It was sparked by a research project investigating the role of textiles, textile design and contemporary fashion in the post-Soviet societies of Central Asia and also includes perspectives on similar developments in Algeria and Peru in order to question dichotomous narrations of modernity relations between textile cultures and heritage building, cultural property, and the concept of cultural heritage. Thus, this book intends to stimulate the ongoing debate about textile culture as national heritage or as means of nation branding.
How Materials Matter
Author | : Graeme Were |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789202021 |
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How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.
Materialized Identities Early Modern Chb
Author | : Burkart BURGHARTZ |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-08-02 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9463728953 |
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" it engages with the agentive qualities of matter " it shows how affective dimensions in history connect with material history " it explores the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts
Gender Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America 1700 1830
Author | : John Styles,Amanda Vickery |
Publsiher | : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105122855310 |
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Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
The SAGE Handbook of Identities
Author | : Margaret Wetherell,Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2010-03-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781446248379 |
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Overall, its breaking of disciplinary isolation, enhancing of mutual understanding, and laying out of a transdisciplinary platform makes this Handbook a milestone in identity studies. - Sociology Increasingly, identities are the site for interdisciplinary initiatives and identity research is at the heart of many transdisciplinary research centres around the world. No single social science discipline ′owns′ identity research which makes it a difficult topic to categorize. The SAGE Handbook of Identities systematizes this complex field by incorporating its interdisciplinary character to provide a comprehensive overview of its themes in contemporary research while still acknowledging the historical and philosophical significance of the concept of identity. Drawing on a global scholarship the Handbook has four parts: Frameworks: presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research. Formations: covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalisation, migratory patterns, biology and so on. Categories: reviews research on the core social categories central to identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and intersections between these. Sites and Context: develops a series of case studies of crucial sites and contexts where identity is at stake such as social movements, relationships, work-places and citizenship.
An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean
Author | : Maria Mina,Sevi Triantaphyllou,Yiannis Papadatos |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781785702914 |
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In the long tradition of the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean bodies have held a prominent role in the form of figurines, frescos, or skeletal remains, and have even been responsible for sparking captivating portrayals of the Mother-Goddess cult, the elegant women of Minoan Crete or the deeds of heroic men. Growing literature on the archaeology and anthropology of the body has raised awareness about the dynamic and multifaceted role of the body in experiencing the world and in the construction, performance and negotiation of social identity. In these 28 thematically arranged papers, specialists in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean confront the perceived invisibility of past bodies and ask new research questions. Contributors discuss new and old evidence; they examine how bodies intersect with the material world, and explore the role of body-situated experiences in creating distinct social and other identities. Papers range chronologically from the Palaeolithic to the Early Iron Age and cover the geographical regions of the Aegean, Cyprus and the Near East. They highlight the new possibilities that emerge for the interpretation of the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean through a combined use of body-focused methodological and theoretical perspectives that are nevertheless grounded in the archaeological record.
State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples
Author | : Heather Rae |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2002-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052179708X |
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Why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? In this book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state building. Political elites have repeatedly used cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be expelled. Showing that these practices predate the age of nationalism, Rae examines cases from both pre-nationalist and nationalist eras: the expulsion of the Jews from fifteenth century Spain, the persecution of the Huguenots under Louis XIV, and in the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide, and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia. She argues that those atrocities prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional. Rae concludes by examining two 'threshold' cases - the Czech Republic and Macedonia - to identify the factors that may inhibit pathological homogenization as a method of state-building.