اشیاء و تخیل: دیدگاه‌هایی دربارهٔ مادی‌سازی و معنا (مداخله‌های مادی: مردم و اشیاء در دنیای حرکت، جلد سوم)

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 6 List of Illustrations 8 Acknowledgements 12 Introduction • Øivind Fuglerud and Leon Wainwright 14 Part I. Museums 38 1. Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation • Sylvia S. Kasprycki 40 2. Disconnecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance • Peter Bjerregaard 58 3. Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space • Saphinaz-Amal Naguib 77 Part II. Presence 92 4. Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea • Anders Emil Rasmussen 94 5. Being There while Being Here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals • Stine Bruland 106 6. Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants • Arne Aleksej Perminow 124 7. Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China • Katherine Swancutt 146 8. How Pictures Matter: Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana • Birgit Meyer 173 Part III. Art 198 9. Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia • Fiona Magowan 200 10. Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu • Amit Desai and Maruška Svašek 220 11. An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the Artification of Whisky and Fashion • Tereza Kuldova 243 Notes on Contributors 261 Index 264