Exploring materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond / edited by Philipp Schorch, Martin Saxer, and Marlen Elders.

This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1, Conceptual grounds. In the gathering shadows of material things ; Doing/changing things/us -- Part 2, Movement and growth. Becoming imperial: the politicisation of the gift in Atlantic Africa ; How pilgrimage souvenirs turn to religious remittances and powerful medicines ; Invocating the gods or the apotheosis of the Barbie Doll ; Stallions of the Indian Ocean ; Labelling, packaging, scanning: paths and diversions of mobile phones in the Andes ; Establishing intimacy through mobile phone connections -- Part 3, Dissolution and traces. Smoky relations: beyond dichotomies of substance on the Tibetan Plateau ; What remains: the things that fall to the side of everyday life ; Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan ; Towards a fragmented ethnography? Walking along debris in Armero, Colombia ; Remembering and non-remembering among the Yanomami ; The matter of erasure: making room for Utopia at Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, Mexico City ; Refugee life jackets thrown off but not away: connecting materialities in upcycling initiatives ; Tamga tash: a tale of stones, stories, and travelling immobiles.

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