Vũ Thị Thanh Tâm
Biographic Data
| ID | 193323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vũ Thị Thanh Tâm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vũ Thị Thanh |
| FAMILY NAME | Tâm |
| SIGNATURE | TÂM V T T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum of Ethnology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1145-975X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is it a sin to sell a statue?Catholic Statues and the Traffic in Antiquities in Vietnam
When antique wooden saints were offered for sale in a Hanoi shop window, they provoked uncomfortable responses from Catholic observers living outside Vietnam who could not imagine their co-religionists voluntarily selling statues that had once been blessed. To explore this question-how things considered too sacred for commerce came to be sold-we bring together two usually discrete domains of research on material culture: object biographies that t…
Beautiful and efficacious statues: Magic, Commodities, Agency and the Production of Sacred Objects in Popular Religion in Vietnam
In his provocative rethink of the anthropology of art, Alfred Gell offers the radical suggestion that people commonly abduct agency-acts of thought, will or intention-to things and suggests that the relationship between people and things be studied in the manner that anthropologists analyze other kinds of human relationships. In Gell's terms, the relationship between people and temple images, as sacred objects, follows the "the rules laid down fo…
Beautiful and efficacious statues: Magic, Commodities, Agency and the Production of Sacred Objects in Popular Religion in Vietnam
In his provocative rethink of the anthropology of art, Alfred Gell offers the radical suggestion that people commonly abduct agency-acts of thought, will or intention-to things and suggests that the relationship between people and things be studied in the manner that anthropologists analyze other kinds of human relationships. In Gell's terms, the relationship between people and temple images, as sacred objects, follows the "the rules laid down fo…
Is it a sin to sell a statue?Catholic Statues and the Traffic in Antiquities in Vietnam
When antique wooden saints were offered for sale in a Hanoi shop window, they provoked uncomfortable responses from Catholic observers living outside Vietnam who could not imagine their co-religionists voluntarily selling statues that had once been blessed. To explore this question-how things considered too sacred for commerce came to be sold-we bring together two usually discrete domains of research on material culture: object biographies that t…
Beautiful and efficacious statues: Magic, Commodities, Agency and the Production of Sacred Objects in Popular Religion in Vietnam
In his provocative rethink of the anthropology of art, Alfred Gell offers the radical suggestion that people commonly abduct agency-acts of thought, will or intention-to things and suggests that the relationship between people and things be studied in the manner that anthropologists analyze other kinds of human relationships. In Gell's terms, the relationship between people and temple images, as sacred objects, follows the "the rules laid down fo…
Is it a sin to sell a statue?Catholic Statues and the Traffic in Antiquities in Vietnam
When antique wooden saints were offered for sale in a Hanoi shop window, they provoked uncomfortable responses from Catholic observers living outside Vietnam who could not imagine their co-religionists voluntarily selling statues that had once been blessed. To explore this question-how things considered too sacred for commerce came to be sold-we bring together two usually discrete domains of research on material culture: object biographies that t…
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (1 works) · Materiality (1 works) · Statue (1 works)