Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement – serie
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23 produkter
Haunting Ruins
Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay
Av Valentina Gamberi, Chiara Calzana
Inbunden, 2025
1979 kr
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Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present. Conjuring environmental humanities, …
Reconstructing Homes
Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Belonging
Av Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1921 kr
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In the practice of constructing the idea of home and the emotions surrounding it, sensory experiences and materiality intertwine to form layers of memory and affective atmospheres. People in different life stages and situations create continuity and a sense of home by engaging with materiality and …
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Inbunden, 2012
1936 kr
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Most theories of material culture, transnationalism, and globalization have failed to incorporate a focus on emotions even though an increasing number of scholars in recent years have explored emotion-dense processes. This book fills the gap and examines how "emotions" can be theorized and serve as …
Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships
Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2013
2123 kr
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What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All …
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Häftad, 2014
527 kr
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In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical …
Objects and Imagination
Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning
Av Øivind Fuglerud, Leon Wainwright
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and …
Objects and Imagination
Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning
Av Øivind Fuglerud, Leon Wainwright
Häftad, 2015
527 kr
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Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and …
Great Reimagining
Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland
Inbunden, 2015
1936 kr
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While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland’s identity through its new symbolic landscapes continue. Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict visual transformation, …
Having and Belonging
Homes and Museums in Israel
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity. This meticulous, insightful book draws striking …
Creativity in Transition
Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
Av Maruška Svašek, Birgit Meyer
Inbunden, 2016
2123 kr
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In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of …
Creativity in Transition
Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
Av Maruška Svašek, Birgit Meyer
Häftad, 2016
601 kr
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In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of …
Death, Materiality and Mediation
An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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In Death, Materiality and Mediation, Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with remembrance in both the public and private arenas through ethnography of communities on both sides of the Irish border. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the …
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
Placemaking in the New Northern Ireland
Av Milena Komarova, Maruška Svašek
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place. Despite touching on memories of `The Troubles' and continuing …
Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Av Birgit Meyer, Mattijs van de Port
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its …
Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Av Birgit Meyer, Mattijs van de Port
Häftad, 2018
527 kr
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Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its …
From Storeroom to Stage
Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the …
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Inbunden, 2021
1921 kr
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Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising …
Cracked Art World
Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
Av Kayla Rush
Inbunden, 2022
1653 kr
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This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world. This is a Northern Ireland …
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Av Sasha Newell
Inbunden, 2023
1921 kr
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Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an …
Rest in Plastic
Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community
Inbunden, 2024
1921 kr
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In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. Rest in Plastic …
Materializing Migrants’ Emotions
An Ethnography of Displacement Through Objects Among Syrians in Turkey
Inbunden, 2026
2047 kr
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By tracing the stories and emotions that emerge through the objects with which migrants associate, it examines human–object relations in the experiences of Syrian migrants in Turkey. It offers a deep ethnographic account of their social and cultural life, mapping the emotional landscape of …
Rest in Plastic
Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community
Häftad, 2027
228 kr
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In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. Rest in Plastic …
Not the Troubles
Alternative Narratives from Belfast
Av Karen Lane
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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Belfast is often analysed as a divided society, anchored in ethno-politico-religious differences amid a long history of conflict. However, shifting the focus of academic attention reveals a range of alternative narratives of city life. Using storytelling as a leitmotif, this ethnographic account …
