Distributed Objects

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• Wydawnictwo: Berghahn Books
• Rok wydania: 2013 r.
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Format: 152x229 mm
• Objętość: 232 str.
• Stan: Bardzo dobry-. Nowa (książka może posiadać delikatne przytarcia oraz niewielkie zagniecenia).
• ISBN: 9781782389132

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship. This volume brings together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of Gell's work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the social sciences and humanities. Extending his theory into new territory – from music to literary technology and ontology to technological change – the contributors do not simply take stock, but also provoke, critically reassessing this important work while using it to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries.