Materiality / edited by Daniel Miller.

Other author Miller, Daniel, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Description294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Material culture.
Materialism.

Contents Objects in the mirror appear closer than they are / Lynn Meskell -- A materialist approach to materiality / Michael Rowlands -- Some properties of art and culture: ontologies of the image and economies of exchange / Fred Myers -- Sticky subjects and sticky objects: the substance of African Christian healing / Matthew Engelke -- Does money matter: abstraction and substition in alternative financial forms / Bill Maurer -- The materiality of finance theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- Signs are not the garb of meaning: on the social analysis of material things / Webb Keane -- Materiality and cognition: the changing face of things / Susanne Küchler -- Beyond mediation: three new material registers and their consequences / Nigel Thrift -- Things happen: or, from which moment does that object come? / Christopher Pinney.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005005701
ISBN0822335301 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822335425 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks GN406 .M38 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold