Archaeologies of Materiality

List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction: Object Orientations: Lynn Meskell. 2. Mastering Matters: Magical Sense and the Apotropaic Figure Worlds: Carolyn Nakamura. 3. The Social life of Rocks: Lindsay Weiss. 4. With a Hint of Paris in the Mouth: Fetishized Toothbrushes or the Sensuous Experience of Modernity in Late 19th-Century Bogota: Felipe Gaitan. 5. Faith in Objects: American Indian Object Lessons at the World in Boston: Erin Hasinoff. 6. The Texture of Things: Objects, People, and Social Spaces in Argentine Prehistory: Marisa Lazzari. 7. Building an Architecture of Power: Electricity in Annapolis, Maryland: Matt Palus. 8. Materiality vs. the Volcano: The Hitherto Unthinkable Wildness of the Volcan Baru, Panama: Karen Holmberg. Afterword: Daniel Miller. Index