An exciting and innovative addition to the study of material culture, art and aethetics. Comprised by accomplished, previously published scholars in the field of art history and social anthropology. Explores how we conceptualise our social surroundings through the framework of the imaginary.
An exciting and innovative addition to the study of material culture, art and aethetics. Comprised by accomplished, previously published scholars in the field of art history and social anthropology. Explores how we conceptualise our social surroundings through the framework of the imaginary.
Øivind Fuglerud is professor of social anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. His research interests include Diaspora formations, politics of cultural representation and aesthetics. He has published a number of works on the conflict in Sri Lanka and its consequences, including Life on the Outside - the Tamil Diaspora and Long-Distance Nationalism (Pluto Press 1999).
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List of Illustrations Introduction Øivind Fuglerud & Leon Wainwright PART I: MUSEUMS Chapter 1. Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation Sylvia S. Kasprycki Chapter 2. De-connecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance Peter Bjerregaard Chapter 3. Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space Saphinaz-Amal Naguib PART II: PRESENCE Chapter 4. Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea Anders Emil Rasmussen Chapter 5. Being there while Being here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals Stine Bruland Chapter 6. Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants Arne Aleksej Perminow Chapter 7. Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China Katherine Swancutt Chapter 8. How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana Birgit Meyer PART III: ART Chapter 9. Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia Fiona Magowan Chapter 10. Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu Amit Desai and MaruSka SvaSek Chapter 11. An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the 'Artification' of Whisky and Fashion Tereza Kuldova Notes on Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Introduction Øivind Fuglerud & Leon Wainwright PART I: MUSEUMS Chapter 1. Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation Sylvia S. Kasprycki Chapter 2. De-connecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance Peter Bjerregaard Chapter 3. Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space Saphinaz-Amal Naguib PART II: PRESENCE Chapter 4. Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea Anders Emil Rasmussen Chapter 5. Being there while Being here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals Stine Bruland Chapter 6. Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants Arne Aleksej Perminow Chapter 7. Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China Katherine Swancutt Chapter 8. How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana Birgit Meyer PART III: ART Chapter 9. Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia Fiona Magowan Chapter 10. Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu Amit Desai and MaruSka SvaSek Chapter 11. An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the 'Artification' of Whisky and Fashion Tereza Kuldova Notes on Contributors Index
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