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The inbetweenness of things : materializing mediation and movement between worlds

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  • Description

    "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"--Publisher's information.

  • Place
    London, England, United Kingdom New Delhi, Delhi, India New York, United States Oxford, England, United Kingdom Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Other Id

    GN406 INB (Library of Congress Call Number)

    87961 (Cat ID)

    87811 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

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Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    The inbetweenness of things : materializing mediation and movement between worlds
  • Primary Maker

    Paul Basu (Editor)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Bloomsbury Academic
  • Place
    London, England, United Kingdom New Delhi, Delhi, India New York, United States Oxford, England, United Kingdom Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Date
    2017
  • Physical Description

    xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9781474264778
    9781474264808
    9781474264785
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Material culture--Philosophy

    Communication and culture/Library of Congress subject headings

    Anthropological linguistics/Library of Congress subject headings

  • Content
    1. The Inbetweenness of Things / Paul Basu
    Museums as Sites of Inbetweenness:
    2. The Inbetweenness of the Vitrine: Three Parerga of a Feather Headdress / Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
    3. The Buzz of Displacement: Liminality amongst Burmese Court Objects in Oxford, London and Yangon / Sandra H. Dudley
    4. Object and Spirit Agency: The G'psgolox Poles as Mediators within and between Colonized and Colonizer Cultures / Stacey R. Jessiman
    Masquerades and Mediation:
    5. At the Centre of Everything? A Nigerian Mask and Its Histories / John Picton
    6. Amodu and the Material Manifestation of Eegun / Will Rea
    Syncretism, Intercession and Iconoclash:
    7. Desire, Imitation and Ambiguity in Asmat Sculpture / Nick Stanley
    8. Animating Relationships: Inca Conopa and Modern Illa as Meditating Objects / Bill Sillar
    9. Visual Diplomacy: Art Circulation and Iconoclashes in the Kingdom of Bamum / Silvia Forni
    Hybridity in Form and Function:
    10. Mediating between Mayas and the Art Market: The Traditional-yet-Contemporary Carved Gourd Vessel / Mary Katherine Scott
    11. Queen Victoria's Samoan Bonnet / Catherine Cummings
    12. The Indigenization of the Transcultural Teacup in Colonial Canada / Madeline Rose Knickerbocker and Lisa Truong
    Between Image, Text and Object:
    13. 'Curious Statues so Cunningly Contrived': Plato's Silenus, Inwardness and Inbetweenness / Lucy Razzall
    14. Coinage between Cultures: Mediating Power in Roman Macedonia / Clare Rowan.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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