Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell
Mark Elliott, Liana Chua, "Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell"
English | ISBN: 0857457446, 178238913X | 2013 | EPUB | 232 pages | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0857457446, 178238913X | 2013 | EPUB | 232 pages | 7 MB
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.