9781787357501, 1787357503, 9781787357495, and 178735749X
Description:
xvii, 262 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Materiality and Connectivity / Martin Saxer and Philipp Schorch -- Conceptual grounds / Tim Ingold -- In the gathering shadows of material things / -- Doing/changing things/us / Philipp W. Stockhammer -- Movement and growth -- Becoming imperial : the politicisation of the gift in Atlantic Africa / Julia T. S. Binter -- How pilgrimage souvenirs turn to religious remittances and powerful medicines / Catrien Notermans and Jean Kommers -- Intervention : Invoking the gods or the apotheosis of the Barbie Doll / Natalie Göltenboth -- Stallions of the Indian Ocean / Srinivas Reddy -- Labelling, packaging, scanning : paths and diversions of mobile phones in the Andes / Juliane Müller -- Intervention : Establishing intimacy through mobile phone connections / Anna-Maria Walter -- Dissolution and traces -- Smoky relations : beyond dichotomies of substance on the Tibetan Plateau / Gillian G. Tan -- Intervention : What remains : the things that fall to the side of everyday life / Marc Higgin -- Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance : doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan / Jennifer Clarke -- Towards a fragmented ethnography? Walking along debris in Armero, Colombia / Lorenzo Granada -- Intervention : Remembering and non-remembering among the Yanomami / Gabriele Herzog-Schröder -- The matter of erasure : making room for Utopia at Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, Mexico City / Adam Kaasa -- Refugee life jackets thrown off but not away : connecting materialities in upcycling initiatives / Elia Petridou -- Intervention : Tamga tash : a tale of stones, stories, and travelling immobiles / Lisa Francesca Rail