Materiality
Exploring the varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present, this book assesses the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity.
Exploring the varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present, this book assesses the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity.
In: Chong, H.G. (1992) "Auditors and materiality" Managerial Auditing Journal, 7(5), September, 8-17 (ISSN 0268-6902)
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In: Documents of contemporary art
In: (2019) 26 Australian Journal of Administrative Law (Forthcoming)
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Contents -- 1. Materiality in Practice: An Introduction - Ruth M. Van Dyke -- 2. Talk to It: Memory and Material Agency in the Arab Alawite (Nusayri) Community - Sule Can -- 3. Replicating Things, Replicating Identity: The Movement of Chacoan Ritual Paraphernalia Beyond the Chaco World - Erina Gruner -- 4. Animacy of the Everyday: Materiality, Bundling, and the Production of Quotidian Ceramics - Tanya Chiykowski -- 5. An Empire of Clay: Ceramics and Discipline in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire - Rui Gomes Coelho
This book examines the relationships between society and material culture: the interaction between people and things. Tim Dant argues that the traditional approach to material culture has focused on the symbolic meanings of objects, largely overlooking the material impact that objects have on everyday life in late modernity. Dant resists the now well-established model of consumption as the principal relationship with `things'' in our lives. Using the motor car as a recurring theme, he shows how we confront our society through material interaction with the objects that surround us. Materiality
In: Morphomata 20
"In the last two decades we have had many books and proceedings of conferences on the history, formulas and incantations of magic in antiquity, both in East and West, but this is the first book of its kind that focuses on the material aspects of magic, such as gems, rings, drawings, grimoires, amulets and figurines. In recent years scholars have focused not only on the discourse and practices of magic in antiquity, but also on its practitioners, literary stereotypes and historical shifts. Much less attention, however, has been paid to the material that was used by the magicians for their curses and incantations. Yet there is no magic without materiality. The practice of magic required a specialist expertise that knew how to handle material such as lead, gold, stones, papyrus, figurines or voodoo dolls. That is why we present new insights on the materiality of magic by studying both the materials used for magic as well as the books in which the expertise was preserved"--
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Band 8, Heft 1
Während Zeit und Raum in den Sozialwissenschaften eine klassische Dualität darstellen, schlägt dieser Artikel eine Sichtweise auf Zeit, Raum und Materialität als im Kern zusammengehörig vor. Als eine der herausragenden Beteiligten an gegenwärtigen Diskussionen über Materialität in den Sozialwissenschaften betonen die Science and Technologie Studies (STS) relationale Ansätze. Jedoch mangelt es den STS an einer klaren, relationalen Definition von Materialität, vielmehr neigen sie dazu, sich auf das Handeln eigenständiger Entitäten wie etwa auf das Handeln von Materialitäten zu konzentrieren. Dieser Aufsatz stellt eine relationale Definition von Materialität vor, Dies impliziert, die Frage nach der Zeit von Materialität empirisch zu wenden. Es wird argumentiert, dass Materialität in ihrer Eigenschaft als relational räumlich untersucht werden muss, weshalb ein raumbezogener Ansatz zur Beschreibung von Beziehungsmustern vorgestellt wird. Auf Grundlage von Feldforschungen in einem Klassenzimmer und einem Computerraum einer Grundschule werden dreierlei Materialien analysiert: die Tafel, ein Hochbett und eine vernetzte, virtuelle 3D-Umgebung. Die empirischen Beschreibungen identifizieren drei unterschiedliche Materialitäten, und es wird gezeigt, wie Zeit in jeder von ihnen unterschiedlich geformt ist. Zeit, so wird argumentiert, ist ein emergenter und charakterisierender Aspekt von Materialitäten als räumlichen Formationen.
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 446-455
ISSN: 1548-226X
In: Studies in Soviet thought: a review, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 12-20
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 140-158
ISSN: 1552-3381
This article focuses on a case of failed consecration: the Egyptian obelisk in New York's Central Park, commonly known as Cleopatra's Needle. The obelisk arrived in New York from Alexandria in 1880, with great fanfare. For a brief period, it was the talk of the town: a tourist curiosity and star of advertising campaigns for consumer goods. After an initial surge in public visibility, the monument's prominence faded. Today, the obelisk is not on the list of New York's top cultural attractions, and no longer features in media campaigns or political rallies. I ask why the obelisk's initial popularity failed to crystallize into an enduring condition of consecration. To answer this question, I use archival data to chart the obelisk's transfer of ownership and planned move, through its Central Park début and subsequent decline in cultural salience. The obelisk met key criteria associated with successful cases of retrospective consecration. What weakened the obelisk's career were lack of consecrating institutions and inherently unstable material conditions. These mechanisms are symbiotically related: because no institution took responsibility for conserving and protecting the obelisk, its granite face rapidly deteriorated and frustrated attempts to attract potential consecrating institutions. The article makes a twofold contribution to the literature on retrospective consecration. First, by discussing a failed case, it highlights the linked efficacy of consecration formation mechanisms. Second, in focusing on an ancient monument, it demonstrates the role played by materials and the specific measures of consecration that obtain in the broader sphere of ancient monuments.
In: Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 2013
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In: Journal of Accountancy, February 1994, 177(2): 71-76
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