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Usually conceived in opposition to each other - birth as a hopeful
beginning, death as an ending - this book brings them into dialogue
with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences
of being in the world and part of living. Written by two authors,
this book takes an intergenerational approach to highlight the
connections and disconnections between birth and death; adopting a
relational approach allows the book to explore birth and death
through the key relationships that constitute them: personal and
social, private and public, the affective and social norms, the
actual and the virtual and the ordinary and profound. Of interest
to academics and students in the fields of feminism, phenomenology
and the life course, the book will also be of relevance to policy
makers in the areas of birth activism and end of life care. Drawing
from personal stories, everyday life and publicly contested
examples, the book will also be of interest to a more general
readership as it engages with questions we all at some point will
grapple with.
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Jim Lambie (Hardcover)
John Giorno, Suzanne Cotter, Daniel Baumann, Sophie Woodward
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This long-awaited volume surveys the career of Glasgow-based
contemporary sculptor Jim Lambie. From his distinctive floor works,
striped from wall to wall with vibrant electrical tape, to his
paint-soaked mattresses, Lambie adroitly sculpts humour and pathos
from the clutter of modern life. Working with items immediately at
hand, as well as those sourced in second-hand and hardware stores,
he resurrects record decks, speakers, clothing, accessories, doors,
and mirrors to form sculptural elements in larger compositions.
Lambie prioritizes sensory pleasure over intellectual response. He
selects materials that are familiar and have a strong personal
resonance, so that they offer a way into the work as well as a
springboard to a psychological space beyond. This volume not only
serves as a definitive mid-career survey but also as a major
reframing of the artist s work. Lambie s practice has long been
understood through the lens of punk and rock music, a frequent
theme of his works titles. Here the artist and new essays instead
trace his approach to the rich material histories he mines and the
scrappy, resourceful spirit of his hometown, Glasgow.
Usually conceived in opposition to each other - birth as a hopeful
beginning, death as an ending - this book brings them into dialogue
with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences
of being in the world and part of living. Written by two authors,
this book takes an intergenerational approach to highlight the
connections and disconnections between birth and death; adopting a
relational approach allows the book to explore birth and death
through the key relationships that constitute them: personal and
social, private and public, the affective and social norms, the
actual and the virtual and the ordinary and profound. Of interest
to academics and students in the fields of feminism, phenomenology
and the life course, the book will also be of relevance to policy
makers in the areas of birth activism and end of life care. Drawing
from personal stories, everyday life and publicly contested
examples, the book will also be of interest to a more general
readership as it engages with questions we all at some point will
grapple with.
Material Methods brings together resources for researchers
investigating both the material, as well as the social world
through material objects we design, buy, make, exchange and
collect. It covers the whole research process, from theoretical
underpinnings, selection of methods and their possible uses, as
well as representing and analysing data. It introduces students and
researchers to the wide range of cross-disciplinary methods which
help us to approach and interpret material culture and materials.
The book also provides students and researchers with the tools to
critically reflect upon pre-existing methods to see their
limitations as well as possibilities, and apply them to their own
research practice.
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how
society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement,
dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a
highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie
Woodward focus on an everyday item--blue jeans--to learn what one
simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and
social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational
anthropological presumption of "the normative." Miller and Woodward
argue that blue jeans do not always represent social and cultural
difference, from gender and wealth, to style and circumstance.
Instead they find that jeans allow individuals to inhabit what the
authors term "the ordinary." Miller and Woodward demonstrate that
the emphasis on becoming ordinary is important for immigrants and
the population of North London more generally, and they call into
question foundational principles behind anthropology, sociology and
philosophy.
On any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue
jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a
serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences
of denim as "the" global garment of our world. This book takes up
that challenge with gusto. It gives clear, if surprising,
explanations for why this is the case; challenging the accepted
history of jeans and showing why the reasons cannot be commercial.
While discussing the consequences of denim at the global level, the
book consists of some exemplary studies by anthropologists of what
blue jeans mean in a variety of local situations. These range from
the discussion of hip-hop jeans in Germany, denim and sex in Milan
through to the connection between denim and recycling in the US.
But through all these intensively researched ethnographies of local
denim we build our understanding of the most curious of all
features of blue jeans -- the rise of global denim.
Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves
through the simple act of getting dressed. Why Women Wear What they
Wear presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. The book
uses real women's lives and clothing decisions-observed and
discussed at the moment of getting dressed - to illustrate theories
of clothing, the body, and identity. Woodward pieces together what
women actually think about clothing, dress and the body in a world
where popular media and culture presents an increasingly extreme
and distorted view of femininity and the ideal body. Immediately
accessible to all those who have stood in front of a mirror and
wondered 'does my bum look big in this?', 'is this skirt really
me?' or 'does this jacket match?', Why Women Wear What they Wear
provides students of anthropology and fashion with a fresh
perspective on the social issues and constraints we are all
consciously or unconsciously negotiating when we get dressed.
Material Methods brings together resources for researchers
investigating both the material, as well as the social world
through material objects we design, buy, make, exchange and
collect. It covers the whole research process, from theoretical
underpinnings, selection of methods and their possible uses, as
well as representing and analysing data. It introduces students and
researchers to the wide range of cross-disciplinary methods which
help us to approach and interpret material culture and materials.
The book also provides students and researchers with the tools to
critically reflect upon pre-existing methods to see their
limitations as well as possibilities, and apply them to their own
research practice.
On any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue
jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a
serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences
of denim as "the" global garment of our world. This book takes up
that challenge with gusto. It gives clear, if surprising,
explanations for why this is the case; challenging the accepted
history of jeans and showing why the reasons cannot be commercial.
While discussing the consequences of denim at the global level, the
book consists of some exemplary studies by anthropologists of what
blue jeans mean in a variety of local situations. These range from
the discussion of hip-hop jeans in Germany, denim and sex in Milan
through to the connection between denim and recycling in the US.
But through all these intensively researched ethnographies of local
denim we build our understanding of the most curious of all
features of blue jeans -- the rise of global denim.
Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves
through the simple act of getting dressed. Why Women Wear What they
Wear presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. The book
uses real women's lives and clothing decisions-observed and
discussed at the moment of getting dressed - to illustrate theories
of clothing, the body, and identity. Woodward pieces together what
women actually think about clothing, dress and the body in a world
where popular media and culture presents an increasingly extreme
and distorted view of femininity and the ideal body. Immediately
accessible to all those who have stood in front of a mirror and
wondered 'does my bum look big in this?', 'is this skirt really
me?' or 'does this jacket match?', Why Women Wear What they Wear
provides students of anthropology and fashion with a fresh
perspective on the social issues and constraints we are all
consciously or unconsciously negotiating when we get dressed.
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