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  • THE MATERIAL SUBJECT
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    THE MATERIAL SUBJECT
    LAURENCE DOUNY / URMILA MOHAN
    The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others, to enhance the anthropological study of embodiment, practices, techniques, materiality and power. Through...

    $1,480.00

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  • LIVING IN A LANDSCAPE OF SCARCITY
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    LIVING IN A LANDSCAPE OF SCARCITY
    LAURENCE DOUNY
    In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives—water, earth, and millet. Douny’s study is an important additio...

    $1,120.00

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  • WRAPPING AND UNWRAPPING MATERIAL CULTURE
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    WRAPPING AND UNWRAPPING MATERIAL CULTURE
    SUSANNA HARRIS AND LAURENCE DOUNY
    This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologi...

    $1,040.00

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