Reconceptualising Material Culture In The Tricontinent

Author : Minu Susan Koshy,Roshin George
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527592841

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Reconceptualising Material Culture in the Tricontinent by Minu Susan Koshy,Roshin George Pdf

This edited volume is the first to engage with material culture in the Tricontinent comprising Asia, Africa and Latin America, interrogating how objects help trace an alternate history of these locales. The potential of material culture to redefine postcolonial subjectivities is explored here through an analysis of various objects, both tangible and intangible. The book serves to subvert Eurocentric formulations of material culture and arrives at a uniquely Tricontinental model of material culture studies. The essays gathered here engage with an entire gamut of issues pertaining to the perception and significance of object-oriented ontologies from a multifaceted perspective. The book offers a glimpse into the vast field of material cultural studies through an engagement with various geopolitical locales in Asia, Africa and Latin America, thereby familiarizing the reader with the nuances of non-European material culture(s).

Author : Anna Malinowska,Karolina Lebek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317219132

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Materiality and Popular Culture by Anna Malinowska,Karolina Lebek Pdf

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.

Author : Ian Woodward
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848607262

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Understanding Material Culture by Ian Woodward Pdf

"In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book." - Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University "A well-grounded and accessible survey of the burgeoning field of material culture studies for students in sociology and consumption studies. While situating the field within the history of intellectual thought in the broader social sciences, it offers detailed and accessible case studies. These are supplemented by very useful directions for further in-depth reading, making it an excellent undergraduate course companion." - Victor Buchli, University College London Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen? Why do people crave shoes or handbags? Is our desire for objects unhealthy, or irrational? Objects have an inescapable hold over us, not just in consumer culture but increasingly in the disciplines that study social relations too. This book offers a systematic overview of the diverse ways of studying the material as culture. Surveying the field of material culture studies through an examination and synthesis of classical and contemporary scholarship on objects, commodities, consumption, and symbolization, this book: introduces the key concepts and approaches in the study of objects and their meanings presents the full sweep of core theory - from Marxist and critical approaches to structuralism and semiotics shows how and why people use objects to perform identity, achieve social status, and narrativize life experiences analyzes everyday domains in which objects are important shows why studying material culture is necessary for understanding the social. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, consumer behaviour studies, design and fashion studies.

Author : Leonie Hannan,Sarah Longair
Publisher : IHR Research Guides
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1784991260

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History Through Material Culture by Leonie Hannan,Sarah Longair Pdf

History through material culture is an excellent guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book provides the first step-by-step guide to developing historicalresearch based around objects. The book makes clear how students and researchers can use these rich material sources to make important, valuable and original contributions to history.Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this book draws onexamples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.

Author : Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0919666671

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Living in a Material World by Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research Pdf

This book offers scholarly state-of-the-art presentations concerning material culture research at this critical stage in its development. These essays describe the emerging field of Material Culture Studies and the new ways it offers for seeking an understanding of our society's basic values and beliefs. They provide fresh insights into the world of goods and the meaning we derive from ordinary things. Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, Living in a Material World includes contributions from scholars in history, anthropology, folklore, art history, and American studies.

Author : Katherine Ott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0415895863

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Understanding Material Culture by Katherine Ott Pdf

People live in a world surrounded by stuff. Yet few of us are taught to understand it or to think very deeply about it at all. "Material Culture" refers to the objects and artifacts that populate our environment that we can see and feel. It is through these objects and images of objects that people learn about and integrate themselves into the human community. Understanding Material Culture is an introduction to Material Literacy--the skill of being able to read and interpret material culture. It is a primer for understanding objects as the evidence of our way of life. The book explains the major theories, issues, and diverse viewpoints and practices of the field of material culture, and demonstrates how to use them through historical examples pulled from the vast collections of the Smithsonian. Perfect for students of history or museum studies, Understanding Material Culture is also helpful for anyone who's ever wondered what their stuff says about them.

Author : Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo,María del Mar Ramón-Torrijos
Publisher : Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788461704002

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEWS ON POPULAR CULTURE: Proceedings of the 5th International SELICUP Conference by Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo,María del Mar Ramón-Torrijos Pdf

Author : Indrani Mukherjee,Java Singh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527534124

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Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective by Indrani Mukherjee,Java Singh Pdf

As the outcome of an international conference held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, this book provides a collection of productive texts on, and novel critical approaches to, comparative literature for young scholars. The wide range of analytical approaches employed here allow for the opening up of texts to new readings. The contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary representations, such as novels, poems and short stories, and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature. As a commentary on contemporary representations of gender, the book is also relevant for all higher education institutions which seek to heighten gender sensitivity.

Author : Saugata Bhaduri,Indrani Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788132224372

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Transcultural Negotiations of Gender by Saugata Bhaduri,Indrani Mukherjee Pdf

Transcultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how gender is negotiated along the two axes of ‘belonging’ and ‘longing’– the twin desires of being located within a cultural milieu, while yearning for either what has passed by or what is yet to come. It also probes into the category of ‘transculturality’ itself, by examining how not only does it pertain to the coming together of cultures from diverse spatial locations, but how shifts over time and changing performative modes and technological means of articulation, within what may be presumed to be the same culture, can also lead to the ‘transcultural’. The volume comprises four sections. Part I, ‘(Be)longing in Time’, examines negotiation of gender through transcultural acts of myths, rituals and religious practices being revised and revisited over time. Part II, ‘(Be)longing in Space’, studies how gender is renegotiated when people from different spaces interact, as also when public spaces and domains themselves become sites of such negotiations. In Part III, ‘Performing (Be)longing’, such transcultural negotiations are located in the context of changing modes of performance, considering particularly that gender itself is performative. The final section, ‘Modernity, Technology and (Be)longing’, traces how gender becomes transculturally negotiated in a space like India, with the advent of modernity and its companion technology.

Author : Jose Manuel Losada,José Manuel Losada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443882026

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Myths in Crisis by Jose Manuel Losada,José Manuel Losada Pdf

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section examines the crisis experienced by those myths which permeate the material world, investigating historical and fictitious characters, mythologized places, and languages. The volume is a remarkable collection of 30 texts that were selected from 300 proposals by prestigious researchers from over 30 countries during the 3rd International Conference of Myth Criticism held in Madrid in October 2014.

Author : Java Singh,Indrani Mukherjee
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648893919

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Posthumanist Nomadisms across Non-Oedipal Spatiality by Java Singh,Indrani Mukherjee Pdf

As an epistemological perspective, ‘nomadism’ is an emerging field of scholarship, offering intersectionality with eco-criticism, feminism, post-colonialism, migration studies, and translation. Much of the scholarship that uses the precepts of nomadism to read cultural texts and phenomena is scattered as separate articles in academic journals or as single chapters in books wherein the primary focus is the intersectional fields. Few book-length publications solely focus on the ramifications of nomadism; Posthumanist Nomadisms across non-Oedipal Spatiality fills that void. The fifteen chapters in this volume explore the possibilities offered by the nomadic perspective to explore a wide range of literary and cultural texts; organized into three sections, “Nomadic Assemblages,” “Non-Oedipal Cartographies”, and “Space-Time Montages”, that work as one to negate absorption into the interiority of sovereign territory. These sections are not an attempt at corralling the nomadic spirit into separate enclosures; instead, they are bands of warriors that operate the violence of the hunted animal, dehumanized human others, and earth others. The chapters are in constant multi-vocal conversations with narratives that camp on the turbulent weathers of global transitory spaces. They charter real or intellectual turfs of interstitial/rhizomatic nomadic epistemologies as political resistance to the exclusionary practices of a violently wired world. This book will appeal to post-graduate students, researchers, and faculty in the departments of literature, comparative literary and cultural studies. Researchers in sociology, cultural anthropology, gender studies, and migration studies will also find the material applicable to the expanding approaches available in their fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2008330624

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Cervantes and Don Quixote by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jaẏā Mitra
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015063178456

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Killing Days by Jaẏā Mitra Pdf

In The Aftermath Of The Political Upheavals Of The 1970S, Many Who Suffered For Their Political Convictions Have Recounted The Ruthless Tyranny Of Those Dark Times In Prison Memoirs. Here, Joya Mitra Recalls The Less Fortunate One, The Ones She Left Behind. These Are Portraits Of Women Who Overstepped The Boundaries Of Social Norms Sometimes Unknowingly, But Most Often Because They Were Deprived Of All Choice, Women Who Were Banished From Society And Kept In Prisons For Correction`.