Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Museums
7. 1 Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation 27
8. 2 Disconnecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance 45
9. 3 Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space 64
10. Part II. Presence
11. 4 Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea 81
12. 5 Being There while Being Here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals 93
13. 6 Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants 111
14. 7 Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China 133
15. 8 How Pictures Matter: Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana 160
16. Part III. Art
17. 9 Art as Empathy IMAGING TRANSFERS OF MEANING AND EMOTION IN URBAN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA 187
18. 10 Transvisionary Imaginations Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu 207
19. 11 An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the Artification of Whisky and Fashion 230
20. Contributors 248
21. Index 251