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1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The inbetweenness of things; A cabinet of curiosities; Fetish; Rhizome; Gift; Prism; References; Museums as sites of inbetweenness; 2 The inbetweenness of the vitrine: Three parerga of a feather headdress; The plume, the vitrine and the parergon; Vitrine 1: Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, 1595; Vitrine 2: Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, 2012; Vitrine 3: Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1940; Conclusion -- smashing the vitrines?; Note; References. |
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3 The buzz of displacement: Liminality among Burmese court objects in Oxford, London and YangonOrientations; Separation; Liminality; Reincorporations; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; 4 Object and spirit agency: The G'psgolox poles as mediators within and between colonized and colonizer cultures; Introduction; The journey of the G'psgolox poles in and between cultures; The power of objects; Spirit agency; The G'psgolox poles and their spirits; Notes; References; Masquerades and mediation; 5 At the centre of everything? A Nigerian mask and its histories; Meeting Onogidi. |
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The mask and its attachmentsOvert male authority and covert female power; From ekuecici to ekuobanyi; Onogidi's genealogy; Ownership and performance; Ec'ane, the 'feast of women': The ritual cycle and the marking of time; Ec'ane, Onogidi, performance and inter-lineage collaboration; Emblematic or inbetween?; References; 6 Amòdu and the material manifestation of Eégún; The cloth closest to the masquerade is called Jépè; Categories and divisions; Gesture; Manifestation and the productive inbetween; Note; References; Syncretism, intercession and iconoclash. |
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7 Desire, imitation and ambiguity in Asmat sculptureAcknowledgement; References; 8 Animating relationships: Inca conopa and modern illa as mediating objects; Social relations between people and things: Mediating objects; Illa: The sympathetic communicative power of objects; Conopa: The Inca state's insertion within household rituals; Seek and destroy: La Extirpación de la Idolotría en el Perú; Display objects: Conopa and illa as museum accessions; Objects are always inbetween; Acknowledgements; References; 9 Visual diplomacy: Art circulation and iconoclashes in the Kingdom of Bamum. |
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International relations and material exchangesCompetitive displays and commercial entrepreneurship; Ambiguous objects and iconoclashes; Semantic brokerage and canonical inventions; Blurred boundaries and contaminated taxonomies; Notes; References; Hybridity in form and function; 10 Mediating between Mayas and the art market: The traditional-yet-contemporary carved gourd vessel; History and usage of gourds; The inbetweenness of carved gourds; Agency, messages and mediation; Conclusion; Notes; References; 11 Queen Victoria's Samoan bonnet; Introduction; The Samoan bonnet; Turtleshell. |
| Summary |
"We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions -- which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose -- and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a series of objects that defy neat classification. In the process, it explores how 'things' mediate and travel between conceptual worlds in diverse cultural, geographic and temporal contexts, and how they embody this mediation and movement in their form. With an impressive range of international authors, each essay grounds explorations of cutting-edge theory in concrete case studies. An innovative, thought-provoking read for students and researchers in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies and art history which will transform the way readers think about objects."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Material culture -- Philosophy.
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Material culture. |
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Philosophy. |
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Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Anthropological linguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Basu, Paul, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Basu, Paul. Inbetweenness of things. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, [2017] 9781474264778 (DLC) 2016047942 |
| ISBN |
9781474264785 (electronic publication) |
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1474264786 (electronic publication) |
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9781474264808 (electronic book) |
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1474264808 (electronic book) |
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9781474264785 (electronic book) |
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9781474264792 |
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1474264794 |
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9781474264778 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1474264778 |
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