The Material Subject : Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion (Paperback)

Foreword by Jean-Pierre Warnier Introduction 1.Subjects, their bodies and their objects Laurence Douny and Urmila Mohan Matter of work and technology 2. Making do and wanting: The professional diver's predicament Celine Rosselin-Bareille 3. 'Management’ and its refuse Agnes Jeanjean 4. Clothing choices and questioning the incorporation of habitus Marie-Pierre Julien Matter of heritage 5. Museum objects in motion: Colonial leftovers and French cultural politics Melanie Roustan 6. The material shaping of women’s subjectivities. Wild-silk textiles of the Marka-Dafing as a cultural heritage Laurence Douny Matter of politics 7. Politics matters: Matiere a Politique Jean-Pierre Warnier 8. Chronicles of a moral war: Ascetic subjectivation and formation of the Javanese state Romain Bertrand 9. Opening and closing gestures: Weaving rituals that give and sustain life Myriem Naji 10. Devotion on the home altar as ‘efficacious intimacy’ in a Hindu group Urmila Mohan Matter of knowledge 11. Anthropology of knowledge transmission beyond dichotomies. Learning and subjectivation among watchmakers in Switzerland Herve Munz 12. The enskilled subject: Two paths to becoming a skilled person among the Paiwan indigenous people of Taiwan Geoffrey Gowlland 13. Afterword: Matter(s) of material culture Nathan Schlanger