National Matters

"National matters: materiality, culture and nationalism" by Zubrzycki, Geneviève, published by Stanford University Press. Introduction : matter and meaning : a cultural sociology of nationalism / Geneviève Zubrzycki -- Artisans and the construction of the French state : the political role of the Louvre's workshops / Chandra Mukerji -- In, on, and of the inviolable soil : pottery fragments and the materiality of Italian nationhood / Fiona Rose-Greenland -- Raw materials : natural resources, technological discourse, and the making of Canadian nationalism / Melissa Aronczyk -- Simultaneously worlds apart : placing national diversity on display at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts / Peggy Levitt -- A brief history of sweat : inscribing "national feeling" on and through a football jersey / Claudio E. Benzecry -- That banal object of nationalism : "old stones" as French heritage in the early days of public television / Alexandra Kowalski -- The mythical power of everyday objects : the material culture of radical nationalism in postsocialist Hungary / Virág Molnár -- Engaging objects : a phenomenology of the tea ceremony and Japaneseness / Kristin Surak -- Traces and steps : expanding Polishness through a Jewish sensorium? / Geneviève Zubrzycki -- A temple of social hope? : Tempelhof Airport in Berlin and its transformation / Dominik Bartmański Book details: viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm pages, published 2018. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.