Gebundenes Buch

Time and Its Object

A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images

Herausgeber: Fortis, Paolo; Küchler, Susanne

Beschreibung

This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective.

Autor

Paolo Fortis is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at Durham University. His work focuses on the relations between art, ontology, time and history in Central and South America. Susanne Küchler is Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London. Her work focuses on the relation between image systems and the geometry of social polity in island Melanesia and Eastern Polynesia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780367260354
• ISBN-10: 0367260352
• Artikelnr.: 75386141