| Description |
1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Introduction -- 1. Subjects, their bodies and their objects -- Matter of work and technology -- 2. Making do and wanting: The professional divers predicament -- 3. 'Management' and its refuse -- 4. Clothing choices and questioning the incorporation of -- Matter of heritage -- 5. Museum objects in motion: Colonial leftovers and French cultural politics |
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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 |
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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 -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Matiere à penser (Group)
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Material culture -- Philosophy
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Material culture -- Research
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Material culture -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Douny, Laurence
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| ISBN |
9781000185409 |
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1000185400 |
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1000182223 |
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9781000182224 |
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