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An Archaeology of the Immaterial (Paperback)
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An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but
poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active
rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident
in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and
asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material
circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved
when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these
'dematerialisations', this book situates the way some people
disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement
which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood
and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over
Western societies and the technologies of materialising the
immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope and
3-D printing, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality
for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of
social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is
thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural
studies which demonstrates that the making of the immaterial is,
like the making of the material, a profoundly powerful operation
which works to exert social control and delineate the borders of
the imaginable and the enfranchised.
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