The Lives of Objects : Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

作者：MaiaKotrosits

副标题：MaterialCulture,Experience,andtheRealintheHistoryofEarlyChristianity

页数：232

定价：USD30.00

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780226707587

内容简介
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Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change.

Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects, looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture, she examines objects of attachment—relationships, ideas, and beliefs that live on in the psyche—and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life. Engaging with classical studies, history, anthropology, and literary, gender, and queer studies, Kotrosits shows how these disciplines address historical knowledge and how an expanded definition of materiality can help us make connections between antiquity and the contemporary world.

作者简介
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Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion at Denison University and author of Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging.

目录
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Introduction – 1

1 Objects Made Real: The Art of Description – 23

2 Citizens of Fallen Cities: Ruins, Diaspora, and the Material Unconscious – 42

3 Histories Unwritten in Stone: The Frustrations of Memorialization – 67

4 Tertullian of Carthage and the Materiality of Power (with Carly Daniel-Hughes) – 85

5 The Perils of Translation: Martyrs’ Last Words and the Cultural Materiality of Speech -107

6 Penetration and Its Discontents: Agency, Touch, and Objects of Desire – 124

7 Darkening the Discipline: Fantasies of Efficacy and the Art of Redescription – 145

Acknowledgments – 165

Notes – 169

Bibliography – 217

Index – 231

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