Practicing materiality /

"Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Van Dyke, Ruth M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Materiality in practice: an introduction / Ruth M. Van Dyke
  • Talk to it : memory and material agency in the Arab-Alawite (Nusayri) community / Şule Can
  • Replicating things, replicating identity: the movement of Chacoan ritual paraphernalia beyond the Chaco world / Erina Gruner
  • Animacy of the everyday: materiality, bundling, and the production of quotidian ceramics / Tanya Chiykowski
  • An empire of clay: ceramics and discipline in the early modern Portuguese empire / Rui Gomes Coelho
  • Quotidian agency and imperial agendas : a study of Andean middle horizon Huamanga ceramics / Brittany Fullen
  • The work they do : phenomenology and monumentality in the Late Archaic of Peru / Halona Young-Wolfe
  • From banned bodies to political subjects : immigrants in protest bundles / Jessica Santos López
  • Materiality as problem space / Mark W. Hauser.