Social matter(s) : anthropological approaches to materiality / edited by Tryfon Bampilis and Pieter ter Keurs.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introductory remarks / Tryfon Bampilis and Pieter ter Keurs -- "Matter matters matter": developments in material culture studies since the 1980s / Eleana Yalouri -- Entanglement: reflections on people and objects / Pieter ter Keurs -- Varieties of nothingness: absence, materialism and ontology in two Greek cases / Aris Anagnostopoulos -- Dancing in high heels: a material culture approach to Argentine tango / Elia Petridou -- Modernity in a bottle: Scotch whisky in the scenarios of commercial Greek cinema of the 1950s-1960s / Tryfon Bampilis -- Migrating-remitting-"building"-dwelling: house-making as "proxy" presence in postsocialist Albania / Dimitris Dalakoglou -- Place as matter, matter as identity: objectifying Istanbul in the context of an urban struggle / Aimilia Voulvouli -- When "dematerialization of the art object is taken to an extreme": notes on "materiality's" relevance to the anthropology of contemporary art / Elpida Rikou -- Aging things and their substitutes: vernacular collecting practices in a north Aegean island / Andronikos Theocharidis.

"This book is inspired by material culture studies. Authors center on the idea that matter and materiality are integral dimension of social life. The diversity of their subjects is reflected in the various approaches that bring together anthropology, archeology, cultural heritage, art, artifacts, commodities, the human body and the study of space. United by a common interest in various social matter(s) and coming from diverse schools of thought and academic traditions, this volume is by no means an effort to present a clear cohesive collective manifesto. On the contrary there might be differences in the way each of the author discusses materiality, matter, thingness, things and artifacts. There are aried understandings of the terms and there are references to different sources." -- Publisher's description.