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1 online resource |
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Part 1: Traditional accounts. Mereology : wholes, parts, and the big thicket / Pete A. Y. Gunter ; Personality in seagoing ships / Marc M. Anderson ; Personified objects and objectified persons in Ancient Egypt / Martin Pehal ; Seeing and time : personal divinity in the object of Hindu devotion / John W. August III ; Convergence and divergence of spirit : tsukumogami and the personality of objects / Kevin C. Taylor ; The journey of Javanese keris / Alan G. Maisey ; Cherokee nonhuman persons in dual realms / Carrie McLachlan ; The quilt as personal object / Sasha L. Biro -- Part 2: New perspectives. The new materialism : a critique / Michael Jackson ; Constituting personal objects, constituting persons / Dwayne A. Tunstall ; A personalized cultural world : a Cassireran phenomenology of personalized intuition / Jared Kemling ; The comfort of things : personal objects, possession, dwelling, and the desire to be god in Sartre and Levinas / James McLachlan ; Have we effectively made money a person and ourselves its corporeal embodiment? / Helen Grela ; Wampum, person, and the life of exchange / Randall Auxier ; How my piano uses Gendlin's Focusing Method / Ralph D. Ellis ; Meditating on the vitality of the musical object : a spiritual exercise drawn from Richard Wagner's Metaphysics of Music / Eli Kramer ; Bring out your dead : human bodies, cultural objects, and personality / Laura J. Mueller ; Sex robots and solipsism : towards a culture of empty contact / Charles W. Harvey |
| Summary |
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as "persons," or as objects with "personality"--they are living objects. Featuring both historical and theoretical sections, the volume details examples of this practice, including the wampum of certain Native American tribes, the tsukumogami of Japan, the sacred keris knives of Java, the personality of seagoing ships, the ritual objects of Hinduism and Ancient Egypt, and more. The theoretical contributions aim to provide context for the existence and experience of personal objects, drawing from a variety of disciplines. Offering a variety of new philosophical perspectives on the theme, while grounding the discussion in a historical context, The Cultural Power of Personal Objects broadens and reinvigorates our understanding of cultural meaning and experience |
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Includes index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 05, 2022) |
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Personal belongings.
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Material culture.
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material culture (discipline)
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Material culture
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Personal belongings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kemling, Jared, editor
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| ISBN |
9781438486185 |
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1438486189 |
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