The Material Subject: Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion

ISBN-13: 9781350077362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Urmila Mohan; Laurence Douny

Opis

The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others.

Spis treści

Introduction 1.Subjects, their bodies and their objects; Matter of work and technology 2. Making do and wanting: The professional diver's predicament; 3. 'Management’ and its refuse; 4. Clothing choices and questioning the incorporation of habitus; Matter of heritage 5. Museum objects in motion: Colonial leftovers and French cultural politics; 6. The material shaping of women’s subjectivities: Wild-silk textiles of the Marka-Dafing as a cultural heritage; Matter of politics 7. Politics matters: Matière à Politique; 8. Chronicles of a moral war: Ascetic subjectivation and formation of the Javanese state; Matter of religion 9. Opening and closing gestures: Weaving rituals that give and sustain life; 10. Devotion on the home altar as ‘efficacious intimacy’ in a Hindu group; Matter of knowledge 11. Anthropology of knowledge transmission beyond dichotomies: Learning and subjectivation among watchmakers in Switzerland; 12. The enskilled subject: Two paths to becoming a skilled person among the Paiwan indigenous people of Taiwan; 13 Afterword: Matter(s) of material culture