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Book SynopsisMost theories of material culture, transnationalism, and globalization have failed to incorporate a focus on emotions even though an increasing number of scholars in recent years have explored emotion-dense processes. This book fills the gap and examines how "emotions" can be theorized and serve as a useful analytical tool for understanding...
Trade Review “The editor has assembled a welcoming rage of case studies that go beyond the European locale to include Africa, North America, Asia and the Caribbean. The book spans an unexpected scope of fine-grained ethnographies that put the diasporic, social and emotional agency of material culture at the centre of analysis.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
Table of Contents List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Affective Moves: Transit, Transition and Transformation
Maruška Svašek
Chapter 1. Materiality, Memories and Emotions: A View on Migration from a Street in South London
Fiona Parrott
Chapter 2. The Objects of Christmas: The Politics of Festive Materiality in the Lives of Polish Immigrants
Kathy Burrell
Chapter 3. From Shop to Chapel: Changing Emotional Efficacy of the Statue of Virgin Mary of El Rocio within the Spanish Community in Vilvoorde, Belgium
Eddy Plasquy
Chapter 4. Sweater Business: Commodity Exchange and the Mediation of Agency in the Tibetan Itinerant Sweater Trade in India
Timm Lau
Chapter 5. Moving Tamils, Moving Amulets: Creating Emotional Well-Being and Comfort
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
Chapter 6. The Price of Progress: ‘Dying Arts’ Among the Karen of Andaman Islands
Sameera Maiti
Chapter 7. Artefacts as Mediators through Time and Space: The Reproduction of Roots in the Journal of Lussignani
Enrico Maria Milič
Chapter 8. Making Connections: Biography, Art, Affect and Politics
Maggie O’Neill
Chapter 9. Crossing Borders: Migration, Memory and the Artist’s Book
Deborah Schultz
Chapter 10. The Emotions and Ethnicity in the Indo-Caribbean
Leon Wainwright
Chapter 11. ‘What You Perceive Is What You Conceive’. Evaluating Subjects and Objects through Emotions
Maruška Svašek
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
