Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement, Band 3)

ISBN 10: 1782385665 ISBN 13: 9781782385660

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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 social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.

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Øivind Fuglerud is professor of social anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. His research interests include Diaspora formations, politics of cultural representation and aesthetics. He has published a number of works on the conflict in Sri Lanka and its consequences, including Life on the Outside - the Tamil Diaspora and Long-Distance Nationalism (Pluto Press 1999).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1782385665
• ISBN 13: 9781782385660
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Herausgeber: Fuglerud Øivind, Wainwright Leon
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland