TY - JOUR
T1 - Objects on the loose
T2 - Ethnographic encounters with unruly artefacts a foreword
AU - George, Kenneth M.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The essays gathered for this special theme issue of Ethnos have to do with things and their social circumstances. Though the contributors and commentators in 'Objects on the Loose' work in different ethnographic and disciplinary precincts, and draw from a diverse set of theoretical writings, we share a common debt to the essays of Arjun Appadurai and his collaborators in the Social Life of Things. Our interests have less to do with formulating critiques or theory-driven responses to this seminal work than with setting out to explore possibilities for ethnographic expansions, revisions, and variations on its themes, and for linking the 'social life of things' to questions of modernity, nationalism, and transnational cultural projects and dilemmas.
AB - The essays gathered for this special theme issue of Ethnos have to do with things and their social circumstances. Though the contributors and commentators in 'Objects on the Loose' work in different ethnographic and disciplinary precincts, and draw from a diverse set of theoretical writings, we share a common debt to the essays of Arjun Appadurai and his collaborators in the Social Life of Things. Our interests have less to do with formulating critiques or theory-driven responses to this seminal work than with setting out to explore possibilities for ethnographic expansions, revisions, and variations on its themes, and for linking the 'social life of things' to questions of modernity, nationalism, and transnational cultural projects and dilemmas.
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U2 - 10.1080/00141844.1999.9981595
DO - 10.1080/00141844.1999.9981595
M3 - Article
SN - 0014-1844
VL - 64
SP - 149
EP - 150
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
IS - 2
ER -