The inbetweenness of things : materializing mediation and movement between worlds / edited by Paul Basu.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017Description: 304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 42593ISBN: 9781474264778 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Material culture -- Philosophy | SocietyDDC classification: 306 BAS LOC classification: GN406Summary: We habitually categorise the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'human' and 'non-human', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. However, these categories are based on false essentialisations and overlook the indeterminacy that often animates social and material worlds. This work rejects Western classificatory traditions - which tend to categorise objects according to bounded notions of period, place and purpose - and argues for the normalisation of a paradigm in which objects are not 'one thing or another' but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, the book is conceived as an exhibition - a cabinet of curiosities - in which anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, and other material culture specialists debate a series of objects that defy neat classification.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We habitually categorise the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'human' and 'non-human', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. However, these categories are based on false essentialisations and overlook the indeterminacy that often animates social and material worlds. This work rejects Western classificatory traditions - which tend to categorise objects according to bounded notions of period, place and purpose - and argues for the normalisation of a paradigm in which objects are not 'one thing or another' but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, the book is conceived as an exhibition - a cabinet of curiosities - in which anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, and other material culture specialists debate a series of objects that defy neat classification.
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