Kotrosits Maia - The Lives Of Objects Material Culture Experience And The Real In The History Of Early Christianity - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Our lives are filled with objects ones that we carry with us that define our homes that serve practical purposes and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken lost left behind or removed from their context they can feel alien take on a different use or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture she examines objects of attachment relationships ideas and beliefs that live on in the psyche and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life. Engaging with classical studies history anthropology and literary gender and queer studies Kotrosits shows how these disciplines address historical knowledge and how an expanded definition of materiality can help us make connections between antiquity and the contemporary world.
Title: The Lives Of Objects Material Culture Experience And The Real In The History Of Early Christianity
Author(s): Kotrosits Maia
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226707587
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 9/7/2020
Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Category: Judaism