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The Social Life of Things
Author | : Arjun Appadurai |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1988-01-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0521357268 |
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Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia. Includes bibliographies and index.
The Occult Life of Things
Author | : Fernando Santos-Granero |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816530427 |
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Combining linguistic, ethnological, and historical perspectives, the contributors to this volume draw on a wealth of information gathered from ten Amerindian peoples belonging to seven different linguistic families to identify the basic tenets of what might be called a native Amazonian theory of materiality and personhood.
Cultural Anthropology A Toolkit for a Global Age
Author | : Kenneth J Guest |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780393265002 |
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The Second Edition of Ken Guest's Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age covers the concepts that drive cultural anthropology by showing that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture and the tools of cultural anthropology are relevant to living in a globalizing world.
Materiality and Popular Culture
Author | : Anna Malinowska,Karolina Lebek |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317219132 |
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This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.
The Social Life of Spirits
Author | : Ruy Blanes,Diana Espírito Santo |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226081809 |
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Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.
The Social Life of Art
Author | : Peter Stupples,Jane Venis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-11-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781443870924 |
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This study examines not only the objects and processes that make up the artworlds of human history, but also the social and cultural circumstances, the historicised contexts that bring about their making, frame their functioning, inform their properties and influence their effects, both at the time of their creation and throughout their subsequent biographies. In the short span that “art” has played a part in human life, one may conceive of time as a social river, with a strong current towards the capricious mainstream, and eddies and quiet pools near the banks. The current will flow faster in spate and slower in drought. But it will be forever in motion. It will be unpredictable. Nothing will stop its inexorable force. Art runs in that social river, subject to the flow and chance of time.
The Social Life of Water
Author | : John R. Wagner |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013-08-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780857459671 |
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Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents.
Modernity At Large
Author | : Arjun Appadurai |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 145290006X |
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