Ordinary things and their extraordinary meanings

The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People's life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things, such as driving a car, using money, listenin...

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Other Authors Marsico, Giuseppina (Editor), Tateo, Luca (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019.
SeriesAnnals of cultural psychology.
Subjects
Material culture > Psychological aspects.
Material culture > Social aspects.
Relevance.
Meaning (Psychology)
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Social and cultural anthropology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806606665
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-684-6
Physical Description1 online resource (318 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editors
  • Preface: How can things be ordinary? Introduction: Framing AI? theory of ordinary and extraordinary in cultural psychology / Luca Tateo and Giuseppina Marsico
  • Chapter 1. On the border for hiding and revealing: Dialogues through underwear / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 2. The magic of holes / Achille C. Varzi
  • Chapter 3. The pornographic gaze and the sense of listening / Sven Hroar Klempe
  • Chapter 4. The poetic resonance of an instant: Making sense of experience and existence through the emotional value of encounters / Olga V. Lehmann
  • Chapter 5. Words and numbers and their singular multiplicity / Marco Tonti
  • Chapter 6. The pen: How cultural objects become semiotically impregnated / Ana Cecília de Sousa Bastos and Maria Angélica Gonçalves Coutinho
  • Chapter 7. Lotteries, betting, coca-cola, and octopus paul: The extraordinary side of the ordinary / Sergio Salvatore
  • Chapter 8. Money for ordinary things--clean or dirty? Money: Ordinary things but deeply culturally embedded phenomenon / Tatsuya Sato, Hideaki Kasuga, and Akinobu Nameda
  • Chapter 9. Clocks, watch, or something else? / Ruggero Andrisano Ruggieri and Claudia Venuleo
  • Chapter 10. Through the looking glass: Monitor and display / Luca Tateo
  • Chapter 11. One mirror, no mirror, one hundred thousand mirrors / Maria Virgínia Dazzani, Waldomiro Silva Filho, and José Carlos Ribeiro
  • Chapter 12. Why is the Virgin Mary not an ordinary mother? Finding otherness and selfness in the sacred triangle / Koji Komatsu
  • Chapter 13. What may we see from the window or what AI? window may show to us? / Kirill S. Maslov
  • Chapter 14. The balcony / Giuseppina Marsico
  • Chapter 15. A discussion about musical instruments: Prostheses of body, prostheses of culture: Objects or processes / Raffaele De Luca Picione
  • About the Contributors.

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