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Title:

The empire of things : regimes of value and material culture / edited by Fred R. Myers.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

School of American Research Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

ix, 353 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Material culture--Social aspects--Congresses.
Group identity.--Congresses.
Values--Congresses.
Art and society.--Congresses.
Ceremonial exchange.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Myers, Fred R., 1948-

Notes:

Essays from an advanced seminar held at the School of American Research, Nov. 3-7, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-340) and index.

Contents:

Money is no object: materiality, desire, and modernity in an Indonesian society / Webb Keane -- Alienable gifts and inalienable commodities / Daniel Miller -- Elusive property: the personification of Mexican national sovereignty / Claudio Lomnitz -- Appropriation/appreciation: settler modernism in Australia and New Zealand / Nicholas Thomas -- The wizards of Oz: nation, state, and the production of aboriginal fine art / Fred R. Myers -- Rights of passage: on the liminal identity of art in the border zone / Christopher B. Steiner -- The object of translation: notes on "art" and autonomy in a postcolonial context / Annie E. Coombes -- Reflections / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Art and material culture: a conversation with Annette Weiner / Fred R. Myers and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

Series:

School of American Research advanced seminar series.

ISBN:

9780852559277 (PBK.)
0852559275 (PBK.)
9780852559284
0852559283
9781930618060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1930618069 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781930618053 (cloth)
1930618050 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46872286
(OCoLC)47938928

LCCN:

2001032038

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)