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[pt] A presente pesquisa objetiva iluminar a participação do livro dentro de um recorte específico da arte contemporânea, na expectativa de talvez ali encontrá-lo como organismo vivo, inacabado, não restrito às habituais representações – neste campo que busca não raro descontruir o lugar das representações e provocá-las com impermanências. Observamos o livro sob a proposição de apresentar-se ali como coisa, elemento material descansado do signo social e literário, produzindo obstáculos conceituais. Partindo da distinção objeto e coisa, a tese sugere haver ainda na contemporaneidade uma relação possível entre materiais, experiência e não-automatismo, ainda que estejamos constantemente envolvidos por um univer-so bastante amplo e onipresente dos signos. Investe, por isso, em atuações não naturalizadas do livro, nas quais os significados se apresentam transitórios e flutuantes - nunca permanentes, nunca antes -, estando em movimento constante a cada interação -, uma relação singular e dialética entre pessoas e coisas, que, segundo autores aqui trabalhados, construiria simultaneamente a ambos. Buscando experimentar as estranhezas no contato com objetos que não se deixam definir - diante da perspectiva de coisa -, a pesquisa reúne proposições de artistas que fizeram uso do livro como material e instrumento da arte. Movimentos artísticos, buscando a libertação dos padrões clássicos funcionam de base para a construção da categoria Livro-Coisa, quando se sugere experimentar o livro antes das palavras e das representações. A categoria torna-se depois materializada em uma instalação artística. A tese encontra fundamentação teórica nos estudos da Cultura Material, a partir de expoentes como Daniel Miller e Tim Ingold, em diálogo com os pressupostos de Heidegger, Didi-Huberman, e outros autores, para, a partir desse todo teórico, refletir acerca da relação contemporânea entre pessoas e coisas, e abordar o objeto com alguma novidade. / [en] This research focuses on the position occupied by the book in a specific segment of contemporary art, with the expectation of perhaps encountering it as a living, unfinished organism, not restricted to its usual representations - in a field that often seeks to deconstruct social representations by challenging them with impermanence. In our proposition, we see the book presenting itself as a thing, a material element resting somewhere beyond social and literary signs, building conceptual barriers. Starting from the distinction between object and thing, this dissertation suggests that even in contemporaneity there is a possible relationship among materials, experience and non-automatism, despite the fact that we are permanently surrounded by a very broad, omnipresent universe of signs. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on non-naturalized performances of the book, where meanings are transient and fluctuating - never permanent, never before - being in constant motion at every interaction - a singular, dialectic relationship between people and things, which, according to the authors analyzed, would construct both simultaneously. Seeking to experience the strangeness of the contact with objects that do not accept definitions - from the perspective of things -, this dissertation brings together propositions of artists who made use of the book as a material and instrument of art. Art movements seeking liberation from classical patterns serve as the basis for the construction of the Book-Thing category, when it is suggested that the book be experienced before words and representations. This category then becomes materialized in an artistic installation. The theoretical foundation of the dissertation lies in Material Culture Studies, based on exponents such as Daniel Miller and Tim Ingold dialoguing with the assumptions of Heidegger, Didi-Huberman and other authors; starting from this theoretical framework, it seeks to reflect on the contemporary relationship between people and things, in an innovative approach to the object.

<p>By applying Canadian literary theory, museum theory, and material culture theory to 20th and 21st century Canadian literature, I argue that physical objects reflect Canada's continued engagement in colonial practices and the nation's resistance to acknowledging these practices. The act of selecting and including (which is also necessarily an act of excluding) objects in personal and institutional collections speak to the anxiety of the Euro-Canadian settler that is produced by a conflicting sense of privilege and colonial complicity. Collecting is a means of negotiating self- and shared knowledge, and by re-collecting and repatriating those things that haunt us we come closer to recognizing ourselves. Re-reading ourselves through objects will allow us to confront this anxiety and its implications, to destabilize the Euro-Canadian settler-as-victim, and to move forward as a nation.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

In this thesis, I examine listening as a neural, cognitive, and behavioral phenomenon that just as much accounts for subject-formation as any other practice of everyday life. I center the performed sonic and musical characteristics of mundane sound objects found within the home and beyond – through direct sensory observation, domestic field recordings, contemporary sound performance, and ethnographic interviews – to ultimately uncover an analytic of precarious listening, or material-semiotic relationships built between sound objects and listening subjects through co-occurring articulations of precarity, such as the breaking down of a family heirloom during end-of-life care, or the shared liminality of transborder students and objects of their material culture. As the domestic soundscape continues to relationally permeate social, material, and environmental significance to (non)humans, I offer precarious listening as a tactic towards an ethics of care against the normative logics of which late modernity operates.

Summaries and keywords in Afrikaans and English / Hierdie histories-argeologiese studie bied ‘n basiese beskrywing van die materiële kultuur van ‘n afgeleë Suider-Afrikaanse plaas wat tussen die 1880’s en die 1930’s bewoon is. Die studie berus op ‘n gedetailleerde ontleding van die opgegraafde vondste wat herwin is van ashope wat met drie wooneenhede op die plaas Welkomskraal, geleë in die distrik Venterstad in die Noordoos-Kaap, verbind word. Die artefakte is aan die hand van die naslaanversameling in die Bloemfonteinse Nasionale Museum en handelsadvertensies geïdentifiseer. Die materiële kultuur dek die volle spektrum van die alledaagse lewe van die plaasbewoners en word aangevul deur genealogiese data, wat aantoon dat die grondeienaars die nasate was van die eerste trekboere wat hulle in die gebied gevestig het. Die bewoningsperiode van Welkomskraal val saam met die tweede industriële revolusie, wat gekenmerk is deur die massaproduksie van goedere en ‘n toenemend globale handelsnetwerk. Die versameling lewer bewys dat boere in die verre binneland toegang tot ‘n wye reeks ingevoerde produkte gehad het, hoewel hulle nie noodwendig welvarend was nie. / This historical archaeological study provides a baseline description of the material culture of a remote southern African farm occupied between the 1880s and the 1930s. The study is based on a detailed analysis of the excavated finds recovered from middens associated with three homesteads, located on the farm Welkomskraal, in the Venterstad district of the north-eastern Cape. Artefacts were identified using the reference collection of the National Museum in Bloemfontein and commercial adverts. The material culture covers the full spectrum of the daily lives of the farm’s occupants and is complemented by genealogical data, which indicate that the landowners were the descendants of the first trekboers who settled in the area. The occupation of Welkomskraal coincided with the second industrial revolution, which was characterised by mass production of goods and an increasingly global trade network. The assemblage attests that farmers in the deep interior had access to a wide range of imported goods although they were not necessarily prosperous. / Anthropology & Archaeology / M.A. (Argeologie)

Despite the fact that there has been an enormous amount of jades excavated from the Western Han tombs of Chu Princes, Xuzhou in Jiangsu province, little scholarly literature has been focused on these artefacts. Based on archaeological findings, this thesis selects some significant jade objects as the focus of attention, including jade pendants, jade vessels, jade weapons, jade suites and other burial jades. As the role and value of jade is varied in the hierarchy of material within different cultural and historical context, the changes in its functions and meanings, to some extent reflects the changes in politics, economy, and society. Through tracing their origins, the identity of the owners and examining the changes in material and society, this study attempts to reveal the cultural and social value embedded in these objects, and in doing so to reconstruct the changes in material concepts and aesthetic ideologies in the Han periods. / On the basis of the achievements have hitherto in Han jade study, the present study is expected to shed light on our understanding of tomb culture and its relation to the society from a broader and more comprehensive perspective. Aside from placing specific types of jade into an accurate period or investigating their functions and sources, this study will read the object by cross reference to ancient textual material. / Using jade, a particular category of art objects, as the point of entry, this study seeks to explore and question the issue of materiality and identity within the context of tomb art, and the wider issue of cultural and social practices in the Han Dynasty. / 林巧羚. / Submitted: 2010年11月. / Submitted: 2010 nian 11 yue. / Adviser: Jenny F. So. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-396). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Lin Qiaoling.

This thesis outlines a technique for rapid documentation of historic sites in volatile cultural landscapes. Using Holt Cemetery as an exemplary case study, a workflow was developed incorporating RTK terrain survey, UAS aerial imagery, photogrammetry, GIS, and smartphone data collection in order to create a multifaceted database of the material and spatial conditions, as well as the patterns of use, that exist at the cemetery. The purpose of this research is to create a framework for improving the speed of data creation and increasing the accessibility of information regarding threatened cultural resources. It is intended that these processes can be scaled and adapted for use at any site, and that the products generated can be utilized by researchers, resource management professionals, and preservationists. In utilizing expedited methods, this thesis specifically advocates for documentation of sites that exist in coastal environments and are facing imminent destruction due to environmental degradation.