An Anthropology of Things

ISBN-13: 9781920901738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 420 str.

Ikuya Tokoro; Kaori Kawai

Spis treści

• Figures
• Tables
• Photographs
• Contributors
• Prologue: Let Things Tell Us 1
• Introduction: Why the Anthropology of Mono (Things)?
• Part I: The Genesis, Extinction and Continuation of Mono
• 1 Between Form, Word and Materiality: Shanbei Paper-Cuts
• 2 Mono that lurk, retreat, or manifest: Mono and the body
• Part II: The Nexus Between Mono and the Environment
• 3 Mono beyond control: A New Perspective on Cultured Pearls
• 4 An Ecological Analysis of Pottery Culture: From Clay to “Mono”
• Part III: The Dynamic Between Mono and the Body
• 5 Learning Pottery Making: Transmission of Body Techniques
• 6 Nature and the Body in Male Sex Stimulants
• Part IV: The Agency of Mono
• 7 Masks as Performers: Topeng, a Balinese Masked Dance Drama
• 8 “Living” Musical Instruments: On Changing Sounds of Suling
• 9 Mono that Show and Tempt: Contingency by Fortune-Tellers
• Part V: Toward a New Mono Theory
• 10 The Origin of Tool-using Behavior and Human Evolution
• 11 “Things” and Their Emergent Sociality in the Primates’ World
• 12 Livestock as Interface: The Case of the Samburu in Kenya
• 13 The Cicadas Drizzle of the Chamus
• Epilogue: Stonehood: Agency as Inagency
• Essay I: The Appearance of “Mono”
• I-1 Where a Name Acquires a Form: Motifs of Javanese Batik
• I-2 Kashta Drives People: The “Mono” Power of Uzbek Embroidery
• I-3 “Play” Between Mono and Humans: Interdependence with bananas?
• Essay II: Mysterious “Mono”
• II-1 Fetishism on Pagodas and Buddha Images
• II-2 “Mono” Sucked Out of the Body: Shamanic Rituals of Ladakh
• Essay III: Fluctuating “Mono”
• III-1 Globalization of Aboriginal Paintings, Localization of “Art”
• III-2 The Bodies and Art Forms of Pacific Islander Artists
• III-3 Staying Authentic: Between bingata and Ryukyu Bingata
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index