Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction • Øivind Fuglerud and Leon Wainwright
Part I. Museums
	1. Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation • Sylvia S. Kasprycki
	2. Disconnecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance • Peter Bjerregaard
	3. Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space • Saphinaz-Amal Naguib
Part II. Presence
	4. Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea • Anders Emil Rasmussen
	5. Being There while Being Here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals • Stine Bruland
	6. Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants • Arne Aleksej Perminow
	7. Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China • Katherine Swancutt
	8. How Pictures Matter: Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana • Birgit Meyer
Part III. Art
	9. Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia • Fiona Magowan
	10. Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu • Amit Desai and Maruška Svašek
	11. An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the Artification of Whisky and Fashion • Tereza Kuldova
Notes on Contributors
Index