Objectification and standardization : on the limits and effects of ritually fixing and measuring life /

Objectification and standardization : on the limits and effects of ritually fixing and measuring life /

"Modes of objectification-different ways of producing and quantifying entities through categories and classes-are part of the cultural infrastructure of any society and any epoch. But we are now in an era that displays a passion for objectification and quantification unparalleled since the begi...

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Other Authors: Larsen, Tord (Editor), Blim, Michael (Editor), Porter, Theodore M., 1953- (Editor), Ram, Kalpana (Editor), Rapport, Nigel, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2021]
Subjects:
Objectification (Social psychology)
Standardization.
Ritualization.
Measurement > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nigel Rapport, Tord Larsen, Michael Blim, Theodore M. Porter and Kalpana Ram
  • Ritual repetition, uncertainty, and the search for an explanation of the 2008 crash, or how economists are doing history / Michael Blim
  • Sacralizing finance, sacrificing society / Emil A. Royrvik
  • Falling in the shadow of relations? Money and the fetishism of relations : belief, speculation and modes of decision-making / Tian Sørhaug
  • Asylum-age numbers : the hopeless push to census the insane / Theodore M. Porter
  • Paper trails and procedures in child welfare services : a cultural logic in a professional context / Petter Almklov, Jens Røyrvik and Gro Ulset
  • The mutating mediatization of pandemics / Charles L. Briggs
  • From grandmother's kitchen to festivals and professional chef : the standardization and ritualization of Arab food in Argentina / Lorenzo CañaÌ?s Bottos and Tanja Plasil
  • The magic of "mudraÌ„s" and performance as "loving play" : the limits placed on intellectualism and rationalizing reforms by the performing arts of India / Kalpana Ram
  • Enumeration and generalization, and knowing through love : the case of Stanley Spencer's artistry / Nigel Rapport
  • From "wuh wuh" to "hoo-hoo" and the rituals of representing bird song, 1885-1925 / Alexandra Hui
  • Archives and cultural legibility : objects and subjects of neoliberal heritage technologies / Rosemary J. Coombe and Eugenia Kisin
  • Space, territory and the ritualized reification and standardized measure of nation and nature : the case of a Swedish children's story, Konrad Lorenz and "super" nationalism / Kenneth R. Olwig
  • "First I turn myself into an object; then I turn myself into a work of art" : objectifying and ritualizing contemporary life / Tord Larsen.