Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Materiality: An Introduction 1
4. Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are 51
5. A Materialist Approach to Materiality 72
6. Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange 88
7. Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing 118
8. Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms 140
9. The Materiality of Finance Theory 165
10. Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things 182
11. Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things 206
12. Beyond Mediation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences 231
13. Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? 256
14. Contributors 273
15. Index 277