Research Catalog

Title

Social matter(s) : anthropological approaches to materiality / edited by Tryfon Bampilis and Pieter ter Keurs.

Publication

Zürich ; Münster : Lit, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bampilis, Tryfon
• Keurs, Pieter ter

Description

xi, 221 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Alternative Title

• Social matter
• Social matters

Subject

• Material culture > Congresses
• Cultural property > Congresses
• Material culture
• Cultural property

Genre/Form

Kongress – Athen <2011>

Note

• International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introductory remarks / Tryfon Bampilis and Pieter ter Keurs -- "Matter matters matter": developments in material culture studies since the 1980s / Eleana Yalouri -- Entanglement: reflections on people and objects / Pieter ter Keurs -- Varieties of nothingness: absence, materialism and ontology in two Greek cases / Aris Anagnostopoulos -- Dancing in high heels: a material culture approach to Argentine tango / Elia Petridou -- Modernity in a bottle: Scotch whisky in the scenarios of commerical Greek cinema of the 1950s-1960s / Tryfon Bampilis -- Migrating-remitting-"building"-dwelling: house-making as "proxy" presence in postsocialist Albania / Dimitris Dalakoglou -- Place as matter, matter as identity: objectifying Istanbul in the context of an urban struggle / Aimilia Voulvouli -- When "dematerialization of the art object is taken to extreme": notes on "materiality's" relevance to the anthropology of contemporary art / Elpida Rikou -- Aging things and their substitutes: vernacular collecting practices in a north Aegean island / Andronikos Theocharidis.

ISBN

9783643902252 (pbk.)

OCLC

891659286

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library