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Archaeologies of Materiality
Lynn Meskell (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3617-4
Hardcover
240 pages
December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures.

Acknowledgments.

Notes on Contributors.

1. Introduction: Object Orientations: Lynn Meskell.

2. Mastering Matters: Magical Sense and the Apotropaic Figure Worlds: Carolyn Nakamura.

3. The Social life of Rocks: Lindsay Weiss.

4. With a Hint of Paris in the Mouth: Fetishized Toothbrushes or the Sensuous Experience of Modernity in Late 19th-Century Bogota: Felipe Gaitan.

5. Faith in Objects: American Indian Object Lessons at the World in Boston: Erin Hasinoff.

6. The Texture of Things: Objects, People, and Social Spaces in Argentine Prehistory: Marisa Lazzari.

7. Building an Architecture of Power: Electricity in Annapolis, Maryland: Matt Palus.

8. Materiality vs. the Volcano: The Hitherto Unthinkable Wildness of the Volcan Baru, Panama: Karen Holmberg.

Afterword: Daniel Miller.

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