Subject and Object in a Vanuatu Social Ontology

A Local Vision of Dialectics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2390929
AutoresK Rio (0000-0002-5055-4883, University of Bergen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen14
Número3
Páginas283-308
Fecha de publicación2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183509106422
OpenAlexW2137963981
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas27

In this article, the author addresses the social effects of material exhibitions in Melanesia. He suggests that people in Vanuatu perceive subjects and objects within a totalizing mode of production, in which the material object takes on the capacity of encompassing social relations. He introduces the Vanuatu case as countering some of the analytical problems with materiality, especially efforts to dismantle the subject/object distinction or to understand the role of agency and will in objects

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