Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Introduction. Matter and Meaning: A Cultural Sociology of Nationalism 1
5. Part I. Materiality and Institutions
6. 1. Artisans and the Construction of the French State: The Political Role of the Louvre’s Workshops 21
7. 2. In, On, and Of the Inviolable Soil: Pottery Fragments and the Materiality of Italian Nationhood 37
8. 3. Raw Materials: Natural Resources, Technological Discourse, and the Making of Canadian Nationalism 58
9. 4. Simultaneously Worlds Apart: Placing National Diversity on Display at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts 83
10. Part II. Things That Matter
11. 5. A Brief History of Sweat: Inscribing “National Feeling” On and Through a Football Jersey 105
12. 6. That Banal Object of Nationalism: “Old Stones” as Heritage in the Early Days of French Public Television 124
13. 7. The Mythical Power of Everyday Objects: The Material Culture of Radical Nationalism in Postsocialist Hungary 147
14. Part III. Places, Practices, and Performances
15. 8. Engaging Objects: A Phenomenology of the Tea Ceremony and Japaneseness 173
16. 9. Traces and Steps: Expanding Polishness through a Jewish Sensorium? 193
17. 10. A Temple of Social Hope? Tempelhof Airport in Berlin and Its Transformation 216
18. References 241
19. Acknowledgments 265
20. Contributors 267
21. Index 271