Moving Subjects, Moving Objects by Maruska Svasek
Most theories of material culture, transnationalism, and globalization have failed to incorporate a focus on emotions even though an increasing number of scholars in recent years have explored emotion-dense processes. This book fills the gap and examines how emotions can be theorized and serve as a useful analytical tool for understanding...-
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
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Rest in Plastic
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Objects and Imagination
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Death, Materiality and Mediation
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The Great Reimagining
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Creativity in Transition
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From Storeroom to Stage
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Sense and Essence
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The Cracked Art World
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Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships
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Having and Belonging
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Materializing Migrants’ Emotions
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Crafting Chinese Memories
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Not the Troubles
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Haunting Ruins
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Reconstructing Homes
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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
“The editor has assembled a welcoming rage of case studies that go beyond the European locale to include Africa, North America, Asia and the CaribbeanThe book spans an unexpected scope of fine-grained ethnographies that put the diasporic, social and emotional agency of material culture at the centre of analysis.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
Maruska Svasek is Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast. Her main research interests are emotional dynamics, migration, and art and artefacts. Recent publications include Human Mobility and Emotions: Ethnographies of Movement (ed., Routledge 2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (ed., Berghahn Books 2006), and Mixed Emotions: Anthropological Studies of Feeling (co-ed., with Kay Milton, Berg 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857453235 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857453238 |
| Title | Moving Subjects, Moving Objects |
| Author | Maruska Svasek |
| Series | Material Mediations: People And Things In A World Of Movement |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2012-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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