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| List of figures | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Series preface | |
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| Preface | |
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| Wayward docents | |
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| Encountering a Chinese horse: engaging with the thingness of things | |
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| Objects and their Properties | |
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| Introduction to Part I | |
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| Museum objects | |
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| The aesthetic of the antique | |
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| On looking at a Tahitian god-house | |
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| Making life beautiful: my experience of doing beadwork | |
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| Knitting is … | |
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| Malangan: objects, sacrifice and the production of memory | |
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| Ere the substance fade: photography and hair jewellery | |
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| Preparing and conserving | |
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| Experiencing Objects | |
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| Introduction to Part II | |
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| The materiality of cultural construction | |
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| The surface of objects and museum style | |
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| Art and the brain | |
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| The event of seeing: a phenomenological perspective on visual sense-making | |
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| Senses and sensibility in Byzantium | |
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| Disaffected | |
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| The state of wonder | |
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| Sensory exile in the field | |
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| In the British Museum | |
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| Contexts of Experiencing Objects | |
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| Introduction to Part III | |
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| Ideas versus things: the balancing act of interpreting historic house museums | |
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| Towards an erotics of the museum | |
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| For your eyes only? The magic touch of relics | |
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| 'Marvels of everyday vision': the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping Nilotes | |
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| Sense matters: aesthetic values of the Great Barrier Reef | |
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| Observed decay: telling stories with mutable things | |
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| Handmade textiles: global markets and authenticity | |
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| Museum Balanga as a site of cultural hybridization | |
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| Object/Person Distinctions | |
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| Introduction to Part IV | |
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| Objects, agency and museums: continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge | |
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| Resonant materiality and violent remembering: archaeology, memory and bombing | |
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| The intangibility of things | |
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| 'Things' as social agents | |
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| Art as a mode of action: some problems with Gell's Art and Agency | |
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| The Blind Man's Stick (BMS) hypothesis | |
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| Making culture and weaving the world | |
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| Index | |