Mundane objects : materiality and non-verbal communication
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Lemonnier Pierre (1948-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-1-61132-056-5, 1-61132-056-9
- Sujets : Technologie -- Aspect social, Culture matérielle, Communication non verbale
- Comprend : Materiality and non-verbal communication
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (205 p.), : Illustrations, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Critical cultural heritage series, Vol. 10,
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en plusieurs versions numériques ; Notes bibliographiques pages 169-178. Bibliographie pages 179-191. Index
Résumé
This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in non-verbal communication, both in non-ritual and in ritual situations. Lemonnier shows that some objects, their physical properties and their material implementation, are wordless expressions of fundamental aspects of a way of living and thinking, as well as sometimes the only means of expressing the inexpressible. Through the study of the most mundane technical activities such as fence building, creating models cars, or trapping fish, we often gain a better understanding of what these objects mean and how they work within their cultures of origin. In addition to anthropologists and archaeologists, this book will also be of interest to sociologists, historians, philosophers, cognitive anthropologists and primatologists, for whom the intertwining of “function” and “style” is the very mark of all cultural behavior