The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930618069 ISBN 13: 9781930618060

Verlag: SAR Press (a division of the School for Advanced Research, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

A new wave of thinking about material culture studies, the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and exchange theory and illuminate the changing patterns of cultural flow in a global economy and the cultural differences in "regimes of value." The book includes an interview with the late Annette B.Weiner, whose work on exchange theory still inspires contemporary material culture studies. The contributors deconstruct the traditional opposition between "gift" and "commodity" and between supposedly "alienable" and "inalienable" objects in ceremonies of exchange—on the island of Sumba or among middle-class shoppers in North London. They show how objects become symbols of national identity, in cases ranging from artworks in Australia to lost body parts of past Mexican presidents. They reveal how the movement of objects across borders, or through art exhibitions exposes contradictions and shifting meanings for different constituencies.

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Fred R. Meyers is a social anthropologist who has conducted much of his research among the Aboriginal people of Australia. He is the chair of the anthropology department at New York University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAR Press (a division of the School for Advanced Research
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1930618069
• ISBN 13: 9781930618060
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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