Distributed Objects by Liana Chua, Mark Elliott - 9781782389132

Distributed ObjectsMeaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell\nAuthor(s): Liana Chua, Mark Elliott\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Berghahn Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Berghahn Books\nISBN-13: 9781782389132, 978-1782389132\nSynopsis\nOne of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship. This volume brings together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of Gell's work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the social sciences and humanities. Extending his theory into new territory - from music to literary technology and ontology to technologi.