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The volume investigates the socio-material dimension and media
practices of cooperation – before, during and beyond situations.
Cooperation is understood as reciprocal interplay operating with or
without consensus, in co-presence or absence of the involved actors
in distributed situations. Artefacts, bodies, texts and
infrastructures are the media that make cooperation possible. They
enable and configure reciprocal accomplishments – and are
themselves created through media practices in cooperative
situations.
By studying how different societies understand categories such as
time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western
epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology,
anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates
the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the "category
project" which did not only stir controversies among contemporary
scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the
thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.
Ongoing debates about the "return of religion" have paid little
attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of
religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of
techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise,
research on religion and media has neglected the fact that
historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was
closely linked to the development of new media of communication.
This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic
studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that
processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume
raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema,
video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and
healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media?
Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts?
Ongoing debates about the "return of religion" have paid little
attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of
religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of
techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise,
research on religion and media has neglected the fact that
historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was
closely linked to the development of new media of communication.
This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic
studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that
processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume
raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema,
video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and
healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media?
Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts?
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