Things in motion : object itineraries in anthropological practice
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Things in motion : object itineraries in anthropological practice
(School of American Research advanced seminar series)
School for Advanced Research Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-272) and index
Contents of Works
- Making things out of objects that move / Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie
- Things in motion : itineraries of Ulua marble vases / Rosemary A. Joyce
- Journey's end (?) : the travels of La Venta Offering 4 / Susan D. Gillespie
- Places to go and social worlds to constitute : the fractal itinerary of Tarascan obsidian idols in prehispanic Mexico / David L. Haskell
- Glass beads and global itineraries / Elliot H. Blair
- Stones in movement : tracing the itineraries of menhirs, stelae, and statue-menhirs in Iberian landscapes / Marta Díaz-Guardamino
- Geologies in motion : itineraries of stone, clay, and pots in the Lake Titicaca Basin / Andrew A. Roddick
- The kula of long-term loans : cultural object itineraries and the promise of the postcolonial "universal" museum / Alexander A. Bauer
- Healing space-time : medical performance and object itineraries on a Tanzanian landscape / Jonathan R. Walz
- Native basketry and the dynamics of social landscapes in southern New England / Heather Law Pezzarossi
- The living past : itineraries of Swift Creek images through wood, earthenware, and ether / Neill J. Wallis
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of "itineraries" to trace the places in which objects come to rest or are active, the routes through which things circulate, and the means by which they are moved. The contributors advocate for a broader engagement with the mobility of things, from the point at which things emerge from source material to the organization of their manufacture and use, their subsequent movements as mediated by economic and ritual exchanges, their deposition in places that become archaeological sites, their emergence through research and subsequent curation in museum collections, and their circulation in the contemporary world, including through reproduction in other media. Ultimately, the contributors explore movement as a fundamental capacity of things and demonstrate the dynamic capacity of things in motion.
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