1st Edition
Mundane Objects Materiality and Non-verbal Communication
By Pierre Lemonnier
Copyright 2012
205 Pages
by
Routledge
205 Pages
by
Routledge
205 Pages
by
Routledge
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This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in nonverbal communication, both in non-ritual and in ritual situations. Lemonnier shows that some objects, their physical properties and their... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Too Sturdy To Be Mundane: A Baruya Garden Fence; Chapter 2 Entwined by Nature: Eels, Traps, and Ritual; Chapter 3 The Anthropological Complexity of Unremarkable Drums; Chapter 4 Artefacts as Images or How to Relate Relations; Chapter 5 Race Cars, Dinky Toys, and Aging Boys; Chapter 6 What Materiality Means: Objects as Resonators; Chapter 7 What’s New? Blurring Anthropological Borders but Keeping “Technology” in Mind; Chapter 8 The Paradox of Marginal Changes;
Biography
Lemonnier, Pierre
