The Aesthetic Constitution of Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11736588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paola Ivanov (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 368-390 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/1089201x-4132965 |
| OpenAlex | W2744851748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 55 |
The Indian Ocean looks back on a long history of exchange concerning luxury goods that were primarily used for personal and interior decoration as well as in performative situations. In view of the primarily aesthetic dimension of the items of trade, Ivanov's article examines the role of aesthetics for creating social ties within the Indian Ocean. Based on a praxeological approach and phenomenological considerations, the article understands social space as a transitory nexus of people, things, and aesthetic forms, which is continually generated anew through social practice. Taking today's Swahili coast as an example, Ivanov argues that the translocal space of the Indian Ocean evolves from practices of mimetic appropriation, in which aesthetic properties of partners in transoceanic exchange are embodied. In doing so, translocal Swahili culture reveals a nondichotomous, complex way in which both the person and society are aesthetically constituted, a way that is at once reflexive and imaginative, bodily and material
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Constitution · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Performative utterance · Political science · Social space · Sociology · Swahili · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Philosophy
The world of the Swahili
Fashioning Africa
‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’
Art And Agency
Entangled Objects
The Material Culture Reader
Modernity at large
Feasts and riot
The Red Fez
The Social Life of Things
Anthropology, art, and aesthetics
The Theory Of The Leisure Class
Swahili Cosmopolitanism in Africa and the Indian Ocean World, A.D. 600–1500
Introduction
Introduction. ‘Translocality’
Biographies of Practice and the Negotiation of Swahili at Nineteenth-Century Vumba
Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies
Horn and Crescent
The Logic of Practice
Chinese Porcelain and Muslim Port Cities
Living Translocality
Philosophising in MombasaKnowledge, Islam and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast
Translocality
Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean to 1800
Objects on the Edge
Meaning and Society in the Near East
How India clothed the world
Spatial Ontology and Explanation
The Gender of the GiftProblems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
Entangled objects
Materializing colonial encounters. Archaeologies of African experience
How India Clothed the World
Meaning and Society in the Near East
The Perception of the Environment
Cinema, Bell Bottoms, and Miniskirts
Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space
Visualisation and Social Reproduction
Tournaments of Value
It's what you do with it that counts
The Constitution of Space
Materializing Ethnography
Constructing translocal socioscapes
Materials against materiality
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |