Sensitive Objects
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Sensitive Objects

Affect and Material Culture

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sensitive Objects

Affect and Material Culture

About this book

Some objects seem especially personal and important to us - be it a quickly packed suitcase, an inherited vase, or a photograph. In Sensitive Objects the authors discuss when, how, and why particular objects appear as 'sensitive'. They do so by analyzing the objects' affective charging in the context of historically embedded practices. Sensitive Objects is a contribution to the upcoming field of 'affect research' that has so far been dominated by psychology and cultural studies, and the authors examine the potential for epistemic gain by connecting the studies of affect with the studies of material culture. The contributors, predominantly ethnologists and anthropologists, use fieldwork to examine how people project affects onto material objects and explore how objects embody or trigger affects and produce affective atmospheres.

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Yes, you can access Sensitive Objects by Jonas Frykman,Maja Povrzanovic Frykman, Jonas Frykman, Maja Povrzanovic Frykman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. Affect and Material Culture. Perspectives and Strategies
  7. 2. Moods and Emotions. Some Philosophical Reflectionson the ‘Affective Turn’
  8. 3. Ethnography and the Choices Posed by the ‘Affective Turn’
  9. 4. Sensitive Objects of Humanitarian Aid. Corporeal Memories and Affective Continuities
  10. 5. The Titoaffect. Tracing Objects and Memories of Socialism in Postsocialist Croatia
  11. 6. Emotional Baggage. Unpacking the Suitcase
  12. 7. Done by Inheritance. A Phenomenological Approach to Affect and Material Culture
  13. 8. What Alters When the Traditional SĂĄmi Costume Travels? A Study of Affective Investments in the SĂĄpmi
  14. 9. In the Mood. Place and Tools in the Music Industry with a Focus on Entrepreneurship
  15. 10. Innovation and Embodiment in a Small Town Hotel
  16. 11. The Performative Museum. Designing a Total Experience
  17. 12. Companion Pieces Written Through a Drift
  18. Contributors
  19. Index