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Idology in Transcultural Perspective

Aoyagi Hiroshi Patrick W Galbraith Mateja Kovacic

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  • 302 sidor
  • 2021
This edited volume expands on what Aoyagi Hiroshi intended in the first decade of the new millennium to establish as a subfield of symbolic anthropology called idology. It brings together case studies of popular idolatry in Japan, but goes further to provide a transcultural perspective to guide anthropological investigations in different places and times. In proposing an integrated paradigm for the growing body of literature on idols, the volume redirects recurrent questions to more fundamental points of sociocultural inquiry. Contributions from scholars conducting ethnographic fieldwork, as well as those engaged in theoretical and historical analyses, facilitate comparative reading and critical thought. Exceeding a narrow focus on human idols, the chapters shed new light on virtual idols and YouTubers, cartoon characters and voices, robot idols and cybernetic systems. Science and technology studies thus comes together with theories of animation and anthropological work on life inmore-than-human worlds.
  • Författare: Aoyagi Hiroshi, Patrick W Galbraith, Mateja Kovacic
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783030826765
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 302
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-12-10
  • Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG