Return to the Object

Susanne Küchler is Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London.Timothy Carroll is a UK Research and Innovation Future Leader Fellow in Anthropology at University College London.

• Introduction: Gell and his influences Part I: Rethinking the frame Chapter 1: Lessons from the Art Nexus Chapter 2: The index and indexicality Chapter 3: The prototype and the model Chapter 4: Immanent relationality and its consequences Part II: Following the Prototype Chapter 5: Virtuosity and style Chapter 6: Aesthetics and the ethics of relation Chapter 7: Generativity and transformation Chapter 8: Agency (social) Part III: Rediscovering the object Chapter 9: Material agency Chapter 10: Colour, Palette and Gestalt Chapter 11: Patterns and their Transposition Chapter 12: Motile Animacy

'This book is at once penetrating and kaleidoscopic, full of exposition coupled with evocative ethnographic illustration. It extends Gell’s ideas into new domains… The synthesis is extraordinary. Ranging across time and space and diversity of perspectives compared and contrasted, this volume will take its place alongside others—one thinks of The Savage Mind, Purity and Danger.'— Frederick H. Damon, University of Virginia