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Materiality

Paperback • 2005 • English

Materiality

By Daniel Miller

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About the book

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material. Humans are defined, to an extraordinary degree, by their expressions of immaterial ideals through material forms. The essays in Materiality explore varied manifestations of materiality from ancient...Show more

Social research and statistics
Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9780822335429

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Materiality

Format

Paperback

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