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  • A RETURN TO THE OBJECT
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    A RETURN TO THE OBJECT
    SUSANNE KÜCHLER / TIMOTHY CARROLL
    This book draws on the work of anthropologist Alfred Gell to reinstate the importance of the object in art and society. Rather than presenting art as a passive recipient of the artist's intention and the audience's critique, the authors consider it in the social environment of its production and reception. A Return to the Object introduces the historical and theoretical framewo...

    $999.00

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  • MALANGGAN
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    MALANGGAN
    SUSANNE KÜCHLER
    Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists. Central to funerals in New Ireland, these ‘death' figures are intended to decompose as symbolic representations of the dead. Wrapped in images that are conceived of as ‘skins', they are both visually complex an...

    $979.00

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  • THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MATERIALS
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    THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MATERIALS
    ADAM DRAZIN / ‎SUSANNE KÜCHLER
    Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as ‘social’ yet the materials which comprise them are considered ‘raw’ or natural’. The Social Life of Materials proposes a new perspective in this interdiscipli...

    $799.00

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