Overview
- Applies the new framework of the “anthropology of things” to eroticism, gender, and sexuality
- Considers non-human actors (objects) as not merely signifiers, but active “performers” in shaping human emotions
- Relevant for humanists (gender studies, sexuality, and eroticism), social scientists (cultural anthropology, contemporary anthropology, and new media studies) as well as methodological researchers in non-anthropocentric fields (posthumanism, transhumanism)
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Focusing on non-human actors, Grażyna Gajewska expands the discussion of eroticism in contemporary culture by bringing in material culture, object studies, and “the anthropology of things.” She sets out from the assumption that things (such as, for instance, attire, underwear, shoes, or jewelry) play an important role in arousing erotic imagination—they are genuine participants in the process, not mere signifiers of eroticism. Their use does not denote only undeniable facts of everyday life associated with functionality, the pragmatic or aesthetic aspect, but also contribute to the shaping of human emotions, fantasies and phantasms. In her study, Gajewska brings eroticism in contemporary culture to light through applying gender studies to new contexts—animals, robots, virtual worlds—even as she explores a new methodology, the anthropology of things.
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Book Title: Eroticism of More- and Other-than-Human Bodies
Book Subtitle: A Study of the Anthropology of Things
Authors: Grażyna Gajewska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54042-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54041-8Published: 10 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54044-9Published: 11 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54042-5Published: 09 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 208
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Gender Studies, Ethnology, Philosophy, general, Sociology of Culture