Liana (Hrsg.) Chua

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Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell

Buch

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship. This volume brings together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of Gell's work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the social sci… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Elliott, Mark (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85745-744-8
EAN: 9780857457448
Produktnummer: 16682833
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 495 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 495

Über den Autor

Liana Chua is Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University London. She works on conversion to Christianity, ethnic citizenship, landscape, resettlement and conservation in Malaysian Borneo, and on artifact-oriented theory and museology more broadly. She is the author of The Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo (2012).