Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning

'During the last few years, a lively, interdisciplinary debate has taken place between anthropologists, art historians and scholars of material culture, religion, visual culture and media studies about the dynamics of material production and cultural mediation in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity. Understanding "mediation" as a fundamentally material process, this series provides a stimulating platform for ethnographically grounded theoretical debates about the many aspects that constitute relationships between people and things, including political, economic, technological, aesthetic, sensorial and emotional processes.' - from back cover.

Including an index.

Alternative title

Material Mediations Vol. 3

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Bergahn Books (New York, United States)

editor

Oivind FUGLERUD,

Leon WAINWRIGHT

Location code

REF.FUO

Language

English

Keyword

visual culture, technology, cultural studies

Publication/Creation date

2015

No of pages

258

ISBN / ISSN

9781782385684

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction

PART I: MUSEUMS

Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation - Sylvia S. KASPRYCKI

De-connecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance - Peter BJERREGAARD

Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space - Saphinaz-Amal NAGUIB

PART II: PRESENCE

Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea - Anders Emil RASMUSSEN

Being there while Being here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals - Stine BRULAND

Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants - Arne Aleksej PERMINOW

Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China - Katherine SWANCUTT

How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana - Birgit MEYER

PART III: ART

Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia - Fiona MAGOWAN

Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu - Amit DESAI, Maruska SVASEK

An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the ‘Artification’ of Whisky and Fashion - Tereza KULDOVA

Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning

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