The spirit of matter modernity, religion, and the power of objects
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Introductions -- Chapter 1 - The Auto-Icon: Or, What a Secularist Relic Says about Modern Dematerializations -- Chapter 2 - Toward a Methodology of the Concrete: Or, Rematerializing Material Culture Studies -- Part II - Fetish an...
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New York ; Oxford
Berghahn
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Methodology and history in anthropology
volume 45 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Introductions -- Chapter 1 - The Auto-Icon: Or, What a Secularist Relic Says about Modern Dematerializations -- Chapter 2 - Toward a Methodology of the Concrete: Or, Rematerializing Material Culture Studies -- Part II - Fetish and the Fear of Matter -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 - The Spirit of Matter: On Fetish, Rarity, Fact, and Fancy -- Chater 4 - The Modern Fear of Matter: Reflectionson the Protestantism of Victorian Science -- Part III - Do Catholics See Things Differently? -- Introduction -- Chapter 5 - Tropy and Wonder: Or, Bodies at the Exhibition -- Chapter 6 - Africa Christo! The Meteriality of Photographs in Dutch Catholic Mission Propaganda, 1946-1960 -- Chapter 7 - "I Am Black, but Comely": Mission, Modernity, and the Power of Objects in the Afrika Museu, Berg en Dal -- Chapter 8 - Seeing Things as Different: The Powers of Miming "Africa" -- Part IV - The Time of Things -- Introduction: Festishizing the Commodity, in Real Time -- Chapter 9 - Things in Time: Commodity Fetishism before Advertising -- Chapter 10 - False Consciousness? The Rise of Advertising -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Future of Things -- References -- Index. A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their ‘life’. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of ‘mind over matter’. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history. |
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| Beschreibung: | xvi, 371 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781805390145 978-1-80539-014-5 |