Things in motion : object itineraries in anthropological practice /

"The contributors to Things in Motion, collectively, demonstrate the dynamic capacity of things in motion, from the point where things emerge from source material, to their circulation in the contemporary world, including their extended circulation through reproduction in other media. The vario...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gillespie, Susan D., 1952-, Joyce, Rosemary A., 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2015
Series:School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 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