The Material Subject

Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion

The Material Subject
Laurence Douny, Urmila Mohan
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1 Oct 2020 UK
9781350077362
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This volume emphasizes the role of bodily and material culture in making subjects, with a focus on empirical field research and theoretical sophistication. In particular, the work is situated in the anthropological study of techniques, materiality and power via the ideas of the Matiere a Penser (MaP) school of thought. It provides students and scholars of material culture with valuable access to an intellectual tradition developed mostly in France and to emerging cross-disciplinary research. The book highlights the embodied subject as a holistic entity - including mind, drives and pains - engaged in relationships with others, and in doing so rejects the Western notion of the self-managing individual with disembodied thought. The chapters mediate different scales of engagement through a focus on practices and connect the study of physical properties (of both humans and objects) and gestures to larger questions of how individuals are connected with their environment and each other through actions.
Urmila Mohan is an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL, UK and part of the Adjunct Faculty at New York University, USA. Laurence Douny is an Associate Research Fellow at LAMC, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Honorary Research Fellow at UCL, UK.
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ISBN-13: 9781350077362
Published: 1 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 240

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