An Archaeology of the Immaterial - Image 1

£105.18

Routledge An Archaeology of the Immaterial

Name: An Archaeology of the Immaterial
Brand: Routledge
Price: 105.18 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 85 days • 85 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 85 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £105 (58 days, 68.2%)

Price range: £105 - £147

Price levels: 3 different prices over 85 days

Description

An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these ‘dematerialisations’, this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over Western societies and the technologies of materialising the immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope and 3-D printing, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural studies which demonstrates that the making of the immaterial is, like the making of the material, a profoundly powerful operation which works to exert social control and delineate the borders of the imaginable and the enfranchised.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 041584049X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Publication Date: 11 September 2015
Listed Since: 17 December 2012

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge An Archaeology of the Immaterial

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution

Materiality and Managerial Techniques: New Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices (Technology, Work and Globalization)

Ma: Materiality in Teaching and Learning: 528 (Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality)

Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson University Press w/ LUP)

Material Imagination in Architecture

Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson University Press) (Clemson University Press w/ LUP)

Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum (One World Archaeology)

The Material City: Bodies, Minds, and the In-Between (Culture of Cities Series, 7)

Discussing New Materialism: Methodological Implications for the Study of Materialities

Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies: Perspectives from UCL Anthropology (Criminal Practice)

Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series): 58

Artifacts and Organizations: Beyond Mere Symbolism (Organization and Management Series)

Immanent Materialisms: Speculation and critique (Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities)

Material Feminisms: New Directions for Education: New Directions for Education

Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Archaeology, Culture, and Society)

Material Subject, The: Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion

Archaeology of Body and Thought: From the Neolithic to the Beginning of the Middle Ages

The New Politics of Materialism: History, Philosophy, Science

Architecture: The Subject is Matter

Material Spirituality in Modernist Women's Writing

A Philosophy of Material Culture: Action, Function, and Mind (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts

New Directions in Museum Ethics

The Built Surface: v. 1: Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment: v. 1: Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals)