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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Material meditations: people and things in a world of movement ; v. 1
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Material meditations: people and things in a world of movement ; v. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Materiality, Memories and Emotions: A View on Migration from a Street in South London -- The Objects of Christmas: The Politics of Festive Materiality in the Lives of Polish Immigrants -- From Shop to Chapel: The Changing Emotional Efficacy of the Statue of the Virgin Mary of El Rocío within a Spanish Community in Belgium -- Sweater Business: Commodity Exchange and the Mediation of Agency in the Tibetan Itinerant Sweater Trade in India -- Moving Tamils, Moving Amulets: Creating Self-identity, Belonging and Emotional Well-being -- The Price of Progress: Dying Arts among the Karen of the Andaman Islands, India -- Artefacts as Mediators through Time and Space: The Reproduction of Roots in the Diaspora of Lussignani -- Making Connections: Biography, Art, Affect and Politics -- Crossing Borders: Migration, Memory and the Artist's Book -- The Emotions and Ethnicity in the Indo-Caribbean -- What You Perceive Is What You Conceive: Evaluating Subjects and Objects through Emotions. |
| Summary |
In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how 'emotions' can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migran. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Ethnopsychology.
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Ethnopsychology. |
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Emotions.
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Emotions. |
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Transnationalism.
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Transnationalism. |
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Material culture.
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Material culture. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Svasek, Maruska.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613717351 (DLC) 2011046315 |
| ISBN |
0857453246 (electronic book) |
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9780857453242 (electronic book) |
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0857453238 |
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9780857453235 |
| Standard No. |
9786613717351 |
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ebc951811 |
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