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The Material Subject - Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion (Paperback)
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The Material Subject - Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion (Paperback)
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The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures
combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is
based on the French Matiere a Penser (MaP) school of thought, which
draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu,
among others, to enhance the anthropological study of embodiment,
practices, techniques, materiality and power. Through theoretical
sophistication and empirical field research, case studies from
Europe, Africa and Asia bring MaP's ideas into dialogue with other
strands of material culture studies in the English-speaking world.
These studies mediate different scales of engagement through a
sensori-motor, affective and cognitive focus on practices of making
and doing. Examples range from the precarity of professional divers
in French public works to the gendered subjectivity of female
carpet weavers in Morocco, from the ways Swiss watchmakers transmit
craft knowledge to how Hindu devotees in India make efficacious use
of altars, and from the enskilment of Paiwan indigenous people in
Taiwan to the prestige of women's wild silk wrappers in Burkina
Faso. The chapters are organised according to domains of practice,
defined as 'matter of' work and technology, heritage, politics,
religion and knowledge. Scholars and students with an interest in
material culture will gain valuable access to global research,
rooted in a specific intellectual tradition.
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