Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality into Cultural Analysis |
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Authors: | Wendy Griswold Gemma Mangione Terence E McDonnell |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA 2. Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 810 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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Abstract: | What can actor-network theory’s approach to analyzing objects offer to cultural sociology? To answer this question we ask a more specific one: How does materiality affect people’s experience of art in a museum exhibition? Research at two museums suggests that non-human agents—object and words—interact with human bodies to choreograph the art encounter. This process works through interactions between two processes of emplacement: physical position and cognitive location. Position guides location in the process of meaning-making, a relationship mediated by three mechanisms: distance, legibility, and orientation. |
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