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OverviewWe habitually categorize the world in binary logics of ‘animate’ and ‘inanimate’, ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’, ‘self’ and ‘other’, ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions – which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose – and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an ‘object-centred’ approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a series of objects that defy neat classification. In the process, it explores how ‘things’ mediate and travel between conceptual worlds in diverse cultural, geographic and temporal contexts, and how they embody this mediation and movement in their form. With an impressive range of international authors, each essay grounds explorations of cutting-edge theory in concrete case studies. An innovative, thought-provoking read for students and researchers in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies and art history which will transform the way readers think about objects. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Basu (University College London, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.413kg ISBN: 9781350085688ISBN 10: 1350085685 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 01 November 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Inbetweenness of Things Paul Basu, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Museums as Sites of Inbetweenness 2. The Inbetweenness of the Vitrine: Three Parerga of a Feather Headdress Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Independent Artist/Curator, UK 3. The Buzz of Displacement: Liminality amongst Burmese Court Objects in Oxford, London and Yangon Sandra H. Dudley, University of Leicester, UK 4. Object and Spirit Agency: The G'psgolox Poles as Mediators within and between Colonized and Colonizer Cultures Stacey R. Jessiman, Stanford University, USA Masquerades and Mediation 5. At the Centre of Everything? A Nigerian Mask and Its Histories John Picton, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK 6. Amodu and the Material Manifestation of Eegun Will Rea, University of Leeds, UK Syncretism, Intercession and Iconoclash 7. Desire, Imitation and Ambiguity in Asmat Sculpture Nick Stanley, British Museum, UK 8. Animating Relationships: Inca Conopa and Modern Illa as Meditating Objects Bill Sillar, University College London, UK 9. Visual Diplomacy: Art Circulation and Iconoclashes in the Kingdom of Bamum Silvia Forni, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada Hybridity in Form and Function 10. Mediating between Mayas and the Art Market: The Traditional-yet-Contemporary Carved Gourd Vessel Mary Katherine Scott, University of Wyoming, USA 11. Queen Victoria's Samoan Bonnet Catherine Cummings, University of Exeter, USA 12. The Indigenization of the Transcultural Teacup in Colonial Canada Madeline Rose Knickerbocker, Simon Fraser University, Canada and Lisa Truong, Carleton University, Canada Between Image, Text and Object 13. 'Curious Statues so Cunningly Contrived': Plato's Silenus, Inwardness and Inbetweenness Lucy Razzall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK 14, Coinage between Cultures: Mediating Power in Roman Macedonia Clare Rowan, University of Warwick, UK IndexReviewsProvocative and absorbing, The Inbetweenness of Thingsprovides a diverse set of case studies of past and present things of our world. Taking movement or inbetweenness as its core analytic, Paul Basu and this volume's contributors demonstrate how productive research on materiality can be. This volume is a vibrant addition to the interdisciplinary study of objects, and should be widely read. * Joshua A. Bell, National Museum of Natural History, USA * Paul Basu makes a unique and compelling contribution to the fields of anthropology, material culture and museology. Pioneering in cutting-edge scholarship, Basu opens up the fascinating world of inbetween objects to a broader audience, with an analysis of a gamut of anthropological tropes from the fetish to the exotica of the European Wunderkammer. * Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria * Author InformationPaul Basu is Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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