Exploring materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond /
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| Imprint: | London : UCL Press, 2020. ©2020 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12355254 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1, Conceptual grounds. In the gathering shadows of material things ; Doing/changing things/us
- Part 2, Movement and growth. Becoming imperial: the politicisation of the gift in Atlantic Africa ; How pilgrimage souvenirs turn to religious remittances and powerful medicines ; Invocating the gods or the apotheosis of the Barbie Doll ; Stallions of the Indian Ocean ; Labelling, packaging, scanning: paths and diversions of mobile phones in the Andes ; Establishing intimacy through mobile phone connections
- Part 3, Dissolution and traces. Smoky relations: beyond dichotomies of substance on the Tibetan Plateau ; What remains: the things that fall to the side of everyday life ; Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan ; Towards a fragmented ethnography? Walking along debris in Armero, Colombia ; Remembering and non-remembering among the Yanomami ; The matter of erasure: making room for Utopia at Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, Mexico City ; Refugee life jackets thrown off but not away: connecting materialities in upcycling initiatives ; Tamga tash: a tale of stones, stories, and travelling immobiles.