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Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering After Alfred Gell

Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering After Alfred Gell

Chua, Liana
Elliott, Mark

Hardcover

Art HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0857457446
ISBN13: 9780857457448
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2013
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship. This volume brings together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of Gell's work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the social sciences and humanities. Extending his theory into new territory - from music to literary technology and ontology to technological change - the contributors do not simply take stock, but also provoke, critically reassessing this important work while using it to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries.

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