The Materiality of Divine Agency, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Karen Sonik

Автор: Van Dyke Ruth M.
Название: Practicing Materiality
ISBN: 0816531277 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816531271
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: It is little wonder that relationships between things and humans are front-and-center in the contemporary social sciences, given the presence of technologies in every conceivable aspect of our lives. From Bruno Latour to Ian Hodder, anthropologists and archaeologists are embracing "thing theory" and the "ontological turn." In Practicing Materiality, Ruth M. Van Dyke cautions that as anthropologists turn toward animals and things, they run the risk of turning away from people and intentional actions.

Practicing Materiality focuses on the practical job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations, but with the firm retention of anthropocentrism. The philosophical discussions that run through the nine chapters develop practical applications for material studies, including Heideggerian phenomenology, Gellian secondary agency, object life histories, and bundling. Seven case studies are flanked by an introduction and a discussion chapter. The case studies represent a wide range of archaeological and anthropological contexts, from contemporary New York City and Turkey to fifteenth-century Portugal, the ancient southwest United States, and the ancient Andes. Authors in every chapter argue for the rejection of subject/object dualism, regarding material things as actively involved in the negotiation of power within human social relationships. Practicing Materiality demonstrates that it is possible to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications.

Автор: Carlile Paul R., Nicolini Davide, Langley Ann
Название: How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts, and Materiality in Organization Studies
ISBN: 0198708858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198708858
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The third volume in the Perspectives on Process Organization Studies Series focuses on the entanglement of social and material aspects of organizations, and in particular the role of objects and material artifacts in the process of organizing.

Автор: Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Karen Sonik
Название: The Materiality of Divine Agency
ISBN: 1501510681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501510687
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: Two topics of current critical interest, agency and materiality, are here explored in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece, elucidate the nature and implications of this intersection: What is the relationship between the divine and the particular matter or physical form in which it is materially represented or mentally visualized? How do sacral or divine "things" act, and what is the source and nature of their agency? How might we productively define and think about anthropomorphism in relation to the divine? What is the relationship between the mental and the material image, and between the categories of object and image, image and likeness, and likeness and representation? Drawing on a broad range of written and pictorial sources, this volume is a novel contribution to the contemporary discourse on the functioning and communicative potential of the material and materialized divine as it is developing in the fields of anthropology, art history, and the history and cognitive science of religion.

Автор: Heather J. Allen, Andrew R. Reynolds
Название: Latin American Textualities: History, Materiality, and Digital Media
ISBN: 0816537712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816537716
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. ""Texts,"" therefore, encompass a broad variety of artifacts: traditional printed matter such as grammar books and newspaper articles; phonographs; graphic novels; ephemera such as fashion illustrations, catalogs, and postcards; and even virtual databases and cataloging systems. Latin American Textualities is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at textual history, textual artifacts, and digital textualities across Latin America from the colonial era to the present. Editors Heather J. Allen and Andrew R. Reynolds gathered a wide range of scholars to investigate the region's textual scholarship. Contributors offer engaging examples of not just artifacts but also the contexts in which the texts are used. Topics include Guamán Poma's library, the effect of sound recordings on writing in Argentina, Sudamericana Publishing House's contribution to the Latin American literary boom, and Argentine science fiction. Latin American Textualities provides new paths to reading Latin American history, culture, and literatures.

Название: Death, Materiality and Mediation
ISBN: 1785332821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785332821
Издательство: Berghahn
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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 living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary communities. Through this study, Graham expands the concept of materiality to include narrative, song, senses, emotions, ephemera and embodied experience. She also examines how modern practices are informed by older beliefs and folk religion.

Автор: Christopher E. Forth, Alison Leitch
Название: Fat: Culture and Materiality
ISBN: 0857856162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857856166
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: "Fat". In contemporary society the word never fails to elicit powerful emotions, especially as it relates to bodily health and appearance. But fat is a noun as well as an adjective and has a cultural life outside of its relationship with the human body. By focusing on the complex physical and experiential dimensions of this problematic substance, Fat: Culture and Materiality breaks new ground in the study of the relationship between culture and the material world. With contributions from well-respected international scholars, this innovative and interdisciplinary collection will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in fat and its relationship to culture, materiality and lived experience. The volume addresses the role of fats in a variety of cultural settings. Topics include the politics of Palestinian olive oil; the allure of pig fat in heritage pork; the material sources of fat stereotypes in classical and biblical texts; the use of harvested fat in aesthetic surgery; and the status of fat in the self-narratives of anorexics.

Автор: Moser Claudia
Название: The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium: Sacrifice and the Materiality of Roman Religion
ISBN: 1108428851 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108428859
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This study assembles the often fragmentary physical evidence (altar placement and orientation, votive and faunal remains, sanctuary architecture) in order to explore the site-specific character of communal animal sacrifice in Republican Rome and Latium over centuries of ritual performance.

Автор: Sugata Ray, Venugopal Maddipati
Название: Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence
ISBN: 1138285315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138285316
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial, and contemporary South Asia.

Автор: Carrie Griffin
Название: Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650: Materiality and Meaning
ISBN: 140945262X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409452621
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Exploring the nature of utilitarian texts in English transmitted from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers textual and material strategies for the presentation and organisation of written knowledge and information during the period.