1st Edition
Mind, Materiality and History Explorations in Fijian Ethnography
By Christina Toren
Copyright 1999
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do we become who we are? How is it that people are so similar in the ways they differ from one another, and so different in the ways they are the same? Christina Toren's theory of mind as not only a physical phenomenon, but an historical one, sets out to answer these questions by examining how the material world of objects and other people informs the constitution of mind in persons over time.... Read more
List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: mind, materiality and history, PART I Objectifying history, material mind, PART II The material basis of meaning, PART III Living history, material mind and the stuff of the world, Notes, References
Biography
Christina Toren
'Toren's perception, craft and theoretical articulation can only be admired.' - Vicki Lukere, Australia National University
