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The Meaning Of Things

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Author : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-10-30

The Meaning Of Things written by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-10-30 with Psychology categories.

The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begin by reviewing what social scientists and philosophers have said about the transactions between people and things. In the model of 'personhood' that the authors develop, goal-directed action and the cultivation of meaning through signs assume central importance. They then relate theoretical issues to the results of their survey. An important finding is the distinction between objects valued for action and those valued for contemplation. The authors compare families who have warm emotional attachments to their homes with those in which a common set of positive meanings is lacking, and interpret the different patterns of involvement. They then trace the cultivation of meaning in case studies of four families. Finally, the authors address what they describe as the current crisis of environmental and material exploitation, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival. A wide range of scholars - urban and family sociologists, clinical, developmental and environmental psychologists, cultural anthropologists and philosophers, and many general readers - will find this book stimulating and compelling.

Interpretation And Its Objects

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Author : Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2003

Interpretation And Its Objects written by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.

This volume collects twenty-one original essays that discuss Michael Krausz’s distinctive and provocative contribution to the theory of interpretation. At the beginning of the book Krausz offers a synoptic review of his central claims, and he concludes with a substantive essay that replies to scholars from the United States, England, Germany, India, Japan, and Australia. Krausz’s philosophical work centers around a distinction that divides interpreters of cultural achievements into two groups. Singularists assume that for any object of interpretation only one single admissible interpretation can exist. Multiplists assume that for some objects of interpretation more than one interpretation is admissible. A central question concerns the ontological entanglements involved in interpretive activity. Domains of application include works of art and music, as well as literary, historical, legal and religious texts. Further topics include truth commissions, ethnocentrism and interpretations across cultures.

The Objects Of Experience

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Author : Elizabeth Wood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16

The Objects Of Experience written by Elizabeth Wood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Art categories.

This book explores human relationships to objects, shows what museums can learn from them, and offers practical tools and exercises for using objects to create richer visitor experiences.

From Objects To Possesions

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Author : Emily Kay Hunt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

From Objects To Possesions written by Emily Kay Hunt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Consumer behavior categories.

Object Medleys

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Author : Daisy Pillay
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-13

Object Medleys written by Daisy Pillay and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-13 with Education categories.

How do we get at the meanings of everyday (and not so everyday) objects, and how might these meanings enrich educational research? The study of objects is well established in fields such as archaeology, art history, communications, fine arts, museum studies, and sociology—but is still developing in education. Object Medleys: Interpretive Possibilities for Educational Research brings together 37 educational researchers from wide-ranging contexts and multiple knowledge fields to a dialogic space in which subjects and objects, living and nonliving, entangle as medleys to open up understandings of connections made with, between, and through objects. Object Medleys offers diverse, innovative modes and lenses for representing, interpreting, and theorising object studies. The book is distinctive within scholarship on object inquiry in that much of the research has been conducted within Southern African educational contexts. This is complemented by contributions from scholars based in Canada and the United Kingdom. The original research represented in each peer-reviewed chapter expands academic conversations about what counts as data and analysis in educational research. Overall, Object Medleys illuminates the applied and theoretical usefulness of objects in response to pressing educational and societal questions. “Object Medleys is a rich and fascinating exploration of new possibilities, with potential for research, teaching, and learning that seems almost unlimited. This book is a rich assembly of affordances for exploring and widening the role of objects in educational research. It relocates attention from language and text towards embodied and material storytelling practices where new and marginalised ways of expression can find their ways into classrooms, thereby opening completely new avenues of teaching and learning.” – Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark “In a time when materiality is being brought at the centre of critical inquiry in the social sciences and humanities, this edited collection offers unique insights into the relationship between objects, subjectivities, and learning. Beautifully written and cogently argued, the book breaks new ground by casting a critical spotlight on artefacts that might appear mundane at first sight but, on closer inspection, reveal complex patterns of educational potential.” – Tommaso M. Milani, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Why We Evaluate

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Author : Gregory R. Maio
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999-11

Why We Evaluate written by Gregory R. Maio and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11 with Family & Relationships categories.

This edited volume offers engaging summaries on the latest research on attitude function from the leaders in the field. Topics include attitude functions, persuasion, individual-differences approaches, the role of motivation, and the practical implicatio

Shakespeare S Speaking Properties

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Author : Frances N. Teague
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 1991

Shakespeare S Speaking Properties written by Frances N. Teague and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book is the first attempt to discuss systematically the properties in Shakespeare's plays, and analyzes the properties that Shakespeare specifies either explicitly in stage directions or implicitly in speeches. Property lists for all of Shakespeare's plays and frequency tables for various categories of property are included.

The Lives Of Chinese Objects

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Author : Louise Tythacott
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2011-06-01

The Lives Of Chinese Objects written by Louise Tythacott and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Art categories.

This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.

The Meaning Of Reminiscence And Life Review

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Author : Jon Hendricks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-04

The Meaning Of Reminiscence And Life Review written by Jon Hendricks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with Psychology categories.

Robert Butler's call for life reviews has exerted a key influence on the way gerontologists have looked at reminiscence and remembering. Widely thought to be a helpful mechanism for integrating past and future, the process of life review needs better specification and evaluation based on sound research. ""The Meaning of Reminiscence and Life Review"" brings together both research and application pieces covering the range of possibilities. It examines important controversies and asks: ""Does it work?"" and ""What is the evidence?"" Given their own voice, what do old people say about looking back?