The Inbetweenness of Things
Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4742-6480-8
- EAN: 9781474264808
- Produktnummer: 22341926
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 72'566 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 43 bw illus
Über den Autor
Paul Basu is Professor of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
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