اشیاء و تخیل: نگرش‌هایی بر مادی‌سازی و معنا

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Museums 1 Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation 2 Disconnecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance 3 Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space Part II. Presence 4 Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea 5 Being There while Being Here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals 6 Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants 7 Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China 8 How Pictures Matter: Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana Part III. Art 9 Art as Empathy IMAGING TRANSFERS OF MEANING AND EMOTION IN URBAN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA 10 Transvisionary Imaginations Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu 11 An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the Artification of Whisky and Fashion Contributors Index