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Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture (Nordic Academic Press Checkpoint)
Jonas Frykman (Ed.)
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Description for Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture (Nordic Academic Press Checkpoint)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Frykman, Jonas; Frykman, Maja Povrzanovic. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid package -- things can induce affects. In this book the authors focus on material culture and on practice -- on what affect does. Some of them place the issue of sensitivity in a wider from of professional interest in innovation and culture-tourism. The volume is a contribution to the upcoming field of affect research that has so far has been mainly explored psychology and cultural studies. In their texts the ethnologists and anthropologists involved show how established ways ... Read more
Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid package -- things can induce affects. In this book the authors focus on material culture and on practice -- on what affect does. Some of them place the issue of sensitivity in a wider from of professional interest in innovation and culture-tourism. The volume is a contribution to the upcoming field of affect research that has so far has been mainly explored psychology and cultural studies. In their texts the ethnologists and anthropologists involved show how established ways ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nordic Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Lund, Sweden
ISBN
9789187675669
SKU
V9789187675669
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About Jonas Frykman (Ed.)
Jonas Frykman is professor emeritus of European ethnology at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He co-edited this volume as professor II at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. His main research interests are culture and class, socialisation, body, memorials and phenomenological analysis of culture. Maja Povrzanovic Frykman is professor of ethnology and teaches at the Department of Global Political Studies, ... Read more
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