The material culture of failure : when things do wrong /: when things do wrong. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Timothy Carroll, David Jeevendrampillai, Aaron Parkhurst and Julie Shackelford.
• Editors: Carroll, Timothy (Timothy Andrew); Jeevendrampillai, David; Parkhurst, Aaron; Shackelford, Julie
• Contents: List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors Foreword: Failure and Fragility: Towards a Material Culture of the End of the World as We Knew It -- Dimitris Dalakoglu 1. Introduction: An Anthropological of Failure -- 2. Miracle Materials: Material Disillusions in the Design Industry Camilla Sundwall (University College London, UK) -- 3. Deity Clothing as (In)Efficacy in a Hindu Devotional Group Urmila Mohan (University College London, UK) -- 4. Whitening Anxiety: Bottled Identity in the Emirates Aaron Lee Parkhurst (University College London, UK) -- 5. The Pleasure of Failure in Taiwan Gareth Breen (London School of Economics, UK) -- 6. Axes of Incoherence: Engagement and Failure Between Two Material Regimes of Christianity (Timothy Carroll, University College London, UK) -- 7. Destruction of Locality: The Role of Heritage in Crisis Syria Julie Shackelford (University College London, UK) -- 8. Mapping Failure: Unpacking the Digital Silence David Jeevendrampillai (University College London, UK) -- 9. Failed Assemblages: Materiality, Silence and Liberal Responses to 9/11 (Pwyll ap Stifin, University College London, UK) -- 10. When Ethnography Goes Wrong: A Study of Physical Failure and Shor Sociality (Charlotte Loris-Rodionoff, University College London, UK) -- 11. Holy Water and Testing Transparent Knowledge in the Ethiopian Orthodox Therapeutics (Sasha Antohin, University College London, UK) -- 12. Response: Reflections on the Notion of Material Failure in Anthropology (Dimitris Dalakoglou, University of Sussex, UK) -- 13: Response: Reflections on the Theoretical and Methodological Implications of a Failed Anthropology (Fiona McDonald, University College London, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4/6; Material culture -- Social aspects; Materials -- Deterioration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781003087069; 9781000184266; 1000184269; 9781000181081; 1000181081; 9781000187717; 1000187713
• Related ISBNs: 100308706X; 9781474289085; 9781474289108; 9781350091719
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed June, 24, 2020).
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