Overview

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.

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Author:   Øivind Fuglerud ,  Leon Wainwright
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781782385660

ISBN 10:   1782385665
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   01 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction Øivind Fuglerud & Leon Wainwright PART I: MUSEUMS Chapter 1. Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation Sylvia S. Kasprycki Chapter 2. De-connecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance Peter Bjerregaard Chapter 3. Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space Saphinaz-Amal Naguib PART II: PRESENCE Chapter 4. Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea Anders Emil Rasmussen Chapter 5. Being there while Being here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals Stine Bruland Chapter 6. Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants Arne Aleksej Perminow Chapter 7. Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China Katherine Swancutt Chapter 8. How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana Birgit Meyer PART III: ART Chapter 9. Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia Fiona Magowan Chapter 10. Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in  Tamil Nadu Amit Desai and Maruška Svašek Chapter 11. An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the ‘Artification’ of Whisky and Fashion Tereza Kuldova Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

The volume offers a valuable new addition to recent publications on material culture by introducing the concept of the imaginary as a framework for the study of objects - With a variety of case studies in different regional settings it deals with the 'enchantment of materiality' (Naguib in the volume), the meaningfulness of objects, their sensual and emotional capacities, and the negotiation of value in their representation or movement across cultural regimes. * Barbara Plankensteiner, Weltmuseum Wien

Author Information

Øivind Fuglerud is professor of social anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. His research interests include Diaspora formations, politics of cultural representation and aesthetics. He has published a number of works on the conflict in Sri Lanka and its consequences, including Life on the Outside – the Tamil Diaspora and Long-Distance Nationalism (Pluto Press 1999).

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