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The Spirit of Matter

Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
BuchGebunden
388 Seiten
Englisch
Berghahn Bookserschienen am14.07.2023
A range of meaningful objects-exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers-demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life . The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of mind over matter . It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.mehr
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KlappentextA range of meaningful objects-exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers-demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life . The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of mind over matter . It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-80539-014-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum14.07.2023
Seiten388 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht713 g
Artikel-Nr.59918831

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Introduction Chapter 1. The Auto-Icon, or: What a Secularist Relic Says about Modern DematerializationsChapter 2. Towards a Methodology of the ConcretePart II: Fetish and the Fear of MatterChapter 3. The Spirit of Matter: On Fetish, Rarity, Fact and FancyChapter 4. The Modern Fear of Matter: Reflections on the Protestantism of Victorian SciencePart III: Do Catholics See Things Differently?Chapter 5. Trophy and Wonder, or: Bodies at the ExhibitionChapter 6. Africa Christo! The Materiality of Photographs in Dutch Catholic Mission Propaganda, 1946-1960Chapter 7. I am Black, but Comely : Mission, Modernity and the Power of Objects in the Afrika Museum, Berg en DalChapter 8. Conclusion: The Powers of Miming Africa Part IV: The Time of ThingsChapter 9. Things in Time: Commodity Fetishism before AdvertisingChapter 10. False Consciousness? The Rise of AdvertisingIn Lieu of a Conclusion: The Future of ThingsReferencesIndexmehr

Autor

Peter Pels is a Professor of Anthropology of Africa at the University of Leiden. He edited the journal Social Anthropology (2003-2007) and advised the Çatalhöyük excavation project led by Ian Hodder (2005-14). His most recent publication is Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum (Routledge, 2023) which is co-edited with Wayne Modest.