Introduction : materiality in practice / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Chapter 1. Talk to it : memory and material agency in the Arab-Alawite (Nusayri) community / Sule Can -- Chapter 2. Replicating things, replicating identity : the movement of Chacoan ritual paraphernalia beyond the Chaco world / Erina Gruner -- Chapter 3. Animacy of the everyday : materiality, bundling, and the production of quotidian ceramics / Tanya Chiykowski -- Chapter 4. An empire of clay : ceramics and discipline in the early modern Portuguese empire / Rui Gomes Coelho -- Chapter 5. Quotidian agency and imperial agendas : a study of Andean middle horizon Huamanga ceramics / Brittany Fullen -- Chapter 6. The work they do : phenomenology and monumentality in the Late Archaic of Peru / Halona Young-Wolfe -- Chatper 7. From banned bodies to political subjects : immigrants in protest bundles / Jessica Santos -- Chapter 8. Materiality as problem space / Mark Hauser
Summary:
"Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications"--Provided by publisher.
