Materiality
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2005
304 pages
978-0-8223-8671-1 (ISBN)
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A collection of essays rethinking the current uses of material culture study in anthropology, including engagements with art, science, and technology.
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Daniel Miller
Materiality
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07/2005
Duke University Press
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Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London. He is the author of many books, including The Sari (with Mukulika Banerjee); Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach; A Theory of Shopping; and The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (with Don Slater). He is the editor, most recently, of Home Possessions: Material Culture behind Closed Doors and Car Cultures.
Content
Materiality: An Introduction / Daniel Miller 1
Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are / Lynn Meskell 51
A Materialist Approach to Materiality / Michael Rowlands 72
Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange / Fred Myers 88
Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing / Matthew Engelke 118
Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms / Bill Maurer 140
The Materiality of Finance Theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki 165
Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things / Webb Keane 182
Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things / Susanne Kuchler 206
Beyond Meditation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences / Nigel Thrift 231
Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? / Christopher Pinney 256
Contributors 273
Index 277
Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are / Lynn Meskell 51
A Materialist Approach to Materiality / Michael Rowlands 72
Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange / Fred Myers 88
Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing / Matthew Engelke 118
Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms / Bill Maurer 140
The Materiality of Finance Theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki 165
Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things / Webb Keane 182
Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things / Susanne Kuchler 206
Beyond Meditation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences / Nigel Thrift 231
Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? / Christopher Pinney 256
Contributors 273
Index 277
