The Material Embodiment of Later Life This article, based on ethnographic research, explores feelings of (not) being at home in older people's residential care. I argue that residents’ feelings about being and becoming at home – or not being
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Narratives of Ageing and Materiality
The Experience of Home in Older People's Residential Care
Melanie Lovatt
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 108–124 (17 total)
Materiality as an Agency of Knowledge
Competing Forms of Knowledge in Rachel's Tomb in Tiberias
Nimrod Luz
that against the current flux and uncertainty of what counts as truth, we need to take materiality more seriously in our ethnography of pilgrimage sites. Further, complementing previous understandings that have emphasized sacred texts as sufficient
The Postwar Schoolbook as a Material Artifact
Two Greek Reading Textbooks from 1944
Niki Sioki
the pedagogical and instructional theories adopted by the official authorities. Similarly, their material form and typographic organization reflect artistic values of the time, available printing technology, and the availability (or lack) of skilled
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 53–72 (20 total)
Material Compromises in the Planning of a ‘Traditional Village’ in Southwest China
Suvi Rautio
visitors. The results are made visible through the aesthetic details and materiality of the village, such as the rice sheaves, to depict, as one tourist leaflet puts it, “the native wisdom of the harmonious farming community living in ancient residencies
The Material Turn in the Study of Religion
Sonia Hazard
Material things and phenomena have come to vie with belief and thought as worthy subjects of inquiry in the interdisciplinary study of religion. Yet, to the extent that we are justified in speaking of a “material turn”, no consensus has arisen about what materiality is or does. This article offers a preliminary sketch of the diverse terrain of material religion studies, delineating three dominant approaches to religious materiality as well as an emerging alternative. It argues that the dominant approaches—respectively characterized by an emphasis on symbolism, material disciplines, and phenomenological experience—continue to privilege the human subject while material things themselves struggle to come into sharp focus. That is, they remain anthropocentric and beholden to the biases against materiality deeply entrenched in the study of religion. Such biases may be negotiated more successfully via the emerging alternative “new materialism”.
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 58–78 (21 total)
Assemblage Making, Materiality, and Self in Cuban Palo Monte
Diana Espírito Santo
which there are thousands. It is, by all accounts, an instrumentalist ritual complex (of which there are several branches) that aims at the perpetual construction and preservation of a kind of self-system, one that encompasses material, mineral, animal
Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life
Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research
Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl
problems of plastic waste are closely connected to the material characteristics and qualities of plastic items. Littering, recycling rates, and toxicological impacts ( Zimmermann et al. 2019 ) are very heterogeneous for different types of plastic packaging
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 146–172 (27 total)
Afterword
Dangerous Mobilities
Mimi Sheller
. Even seemingly solid things like buildings move, and as Gail Adams-Hutcheson brings out, entangle us in “vibrant materialities.” Humans also face other dangers, associated with our bodily needs for breathable air, clean water, and warmth, each
Introduction
The Power and Productivity of Vigilance Regimes
Ana Ivasiuc, Eveline Dürr, and Catherine Whittaker
which it is productive of materialities, visualities, and cognitive and affective subjectivities, structuring social practices in specific ways. 1 Thus, we chart the power and productiveness of vigilance along the axes of visuality, materiality, and
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 57–72 (16 total)
Chasing the Secular
Methodological Reflections on How to Make the Secular Tangible
Birgitte Schepelern Johansen
How can we think about the secular in ways that encourage empirical investigations of its specific, localized, material, and embodied expressions? Locating the secular in particular things, bodies, practices, and situations invites the scholar to
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 126–139 (14 total)