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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820774703321

Titolo

Moving subjects, moving objects [[electronic resource] ] : transnationalism, cultural production and emotions / / edited by Maruška Svašek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2012

ISBN

1-280-87604-2

9786613717351

0-85745-324-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Material mediations : people and things in a world of movement ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

SvasekMaruska

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Ethnopsychology

Emotions

Transnationalism

Material culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Moving Subjects, Moving Objects; Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement; Moving Subjects, Moving ObjectsTransnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Materiality, Memories and Emotions: A View on Migration from a Street in South London; 2 The Objects of Christmas: The Politics of Festive Materiality in the Lives of Polish Immigrants; 3 From Shop to Chapel: The Changing Emotional Efficacy of the Statue of the Virgin Mary of El Rocío within a Spanish Community in Belgium

4 Sweater Business: Commodity Exchange and the Mediation of Agency in the Tibetan Itinerant Sweater Trade in India5 Moving Tamils, Moving Amulets: Creating Self-identity, Belonging and Emotional Well-being; 6 The Price of Progress: 'Dying Arts' among the Karen of the Andaman Islands, India; 7 Artefacts as Mediators through Time and Space: The Reproduction of Roots in the Diaspora of Lussignani; 8 Making Connections: Biography, Art, Affect and Politics; 9 Crossing Borders: Migration, Memory and the Artist's Book; 10 The Emotions and Ethnicity



in the Indo-Caribbean

11 'What You Perceive Is What You Conceive': Evaluating Subjects and Objects through EmotionsNotes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how 'emotions' can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migran