In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within
sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this
volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching
across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of
making, knowing, living and dying. Through theoretically reflecting
on time spent with Aymara and Mapuche Andean cultures; the Malagasy
people of Madagascar; craftspeople and designers across Europe and
Oceania; amongst the architectures of Australia and South Korea and
within the folds of books, screens, landscape and the sea, the
anthropologists in this volume communicate diverse ways of
considering, working with and knowing surfaces. Together, these
writings advance a knowledge of the world which resists any
definitive settlement of existential categories and rather seeks to
know the world in its emergence and transformation, as entities
grow, cohere, shift, dissolve, decay and are reborn through the
contact and exchange of surfaces, persisting with varying time,
power and effect. The book principally invites readers from
anthropology, the creative arts and environmental studies, but also
across the wider humanities and social sciences as well as those in
neighbouring scientific fields of archaeology, biology, geography,
geoscience, material science, neurology and psychology interested
in the intersections of mind, body, materials and world.
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