UID:
almahu_9949386254802882
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 224 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781000182224
,
1000182223
,
9781000185409
,
1000185400
,
9781003086031
,
1003086039
,
9781000188851
,
100018885X
Content:
"This volume emphasizes the role of bodily and material culture in making subjects, with a focus on empirical field research and theoretical sophistication. In particular, the work is situated in the anthropological study of techniques, materiality and power via the ideas of the Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought. It provides students and scholars of material culture with valuable access to an intellectual tradition developed mostly in France and to emerging cross-disciplinary research. The book highlights the embodied subject as a holistic entity - including mind, drives and pains - engaged in relationships with others, and in doing so rejects the Western notion of the self-managing individual with disembodied thought. The chapters mediate different scales of engagement through a focus on practices and connect the study of physical properties (of both humans and objects) and gestures to larger questions of how individuals are connected with their environment and each other through actions"--
Note:
Introduction -- 1. Subjects, their bodies and their objects -- Matter of work and technology -- 2. Making do and wanting : the professional diver's predicament -- 3. 'Management' and its refuse -- 4. Clothing choices and questioning the incorporation of habitus -- Matter of heritage -- 5. Museum objects in motion : colonial leftovers and French cultural politics -- 6. The material shaping of women's subjectivities : wild-silk textiles of the Marka-Dafing as a cultural heritage -- Matter of politics -- 7. Politics matters : Maitère à politique -- 8. Chronicles of a moral war : ascetic subjectivation and formation of the Javanese state -- Matter of religion -- 9. Opening and chewing gestures : weaving rituals that give and sustain life -- 10. Devotion on the home altar as 'efficacious intimacy' in a Hindu group -- Matter of knowledge -- 11. Anthropology of knowledge transmission beyond dichotomies : learning and subjectivation among watchmakers in Switzerland -- 12. The enskilled subject : two paths to becoming a skilled person among the Paiwan indigenous people of Taiwan -- 13. Afterword : matter(s) of material culture.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The material subject Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9781350077362
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003086031
Bookmarklink
