The Soul of the Biblical Sandal

On Anthropology and Style

Bibliographic Data

ID2280261
AuthorsTamar El Or (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume114
Issue3
Pages433-445
Publication date2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01444.x
OpenAlexW1919063424
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited26

This article is about the measurements and qualities of local style. Archeological, linguistic, and historical data are brought together to move deep into the cultural analysis of an object known as the biblical sandal. The relationship between the object and its meaning, which is at the core of much of the literature on material culture (Appadurai 1986;Henare et al. 2007), is analyzed via the notion of style. Style fuels and limits changes in material culture (Boas 1927;Wilk 1995;Wobst 1999), and the biography of the biblical sandal demonstrates that. New technologies, trends, and desires profoundly affect the story, but only to the limits of a certain style that retains a specific ethic and esthetic. This article focuses on one producer (Nimrod Ltd.) and is part of a larger project on material culture and production of style in Israel. [sandals, style, material culture, simplicity

Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Simplicity · Sociology · Soul · Style (visual arts · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art

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