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Material Encounters

Material Encounters

Douglas, Bronwen
Ballard, Chris

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1032494700
ISBN13: 9781032494708
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2025
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.85 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

This topical and conceptually innovative book proposes new perspectives on the theme of materiality which, since the 1980s, has animated work across and within disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The particular focus of the chapters in this volume is the materiality of knowledge produced through embodied encounters between people, places, and things in the Pacific Islands, New Guinea, Australia, and Myanmar. The authors consider how materiality mediates the ways in which knowledge is generated or acquired in encounters and becomes expressed through things and material forms of inscription - charts and maps; journals, letters, and reports; drawings; objects; human remains; legends, cartouches, captions, labels, marginalia, and notes; and published works of all kinds. The essays further address processes whereby materialized knowledge is archived, conserved, distributed, restricted, or dispersed - through serendipity, excess, loss, silence, absence, and suppression.

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