An Anthropology of Luminosity
An Anthropology of Luminosity
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光度人类学
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2007
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T. Sørensen
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M. Bille;T. Sørensen
本文探讨了光、物质文化和社会经验之间的关系。它认为，理解光作为一个强大的社会代理人，在其与人，事物，颜色，光泽和地方的关系，可能有助于在日常活动的实践中的积极的社会作用的光度升值。本文调查了一系列过去的概念，光在哲学，自然科学和最近的方法，光在人类学和物质文化研究领域。一些影响进行了讨论，并通过三个案例研究，它认为，光可以被用来作为一种工具，行使社会亲密和包容性，塑造道德空间和热情好客，和编排运动，同时作为一个隐喻，以及在这些社会谈判的物质代理。对光的社会理解是一种理解社会地位的手段，这种理解可能是真实的，也可能是想象的，但都与某些灯光景观的社会和文化联系有关。
This article addresses the relationship between light, material culture and social experiences. It argues that understanding light as a powerful social agent, in its relationship with people, things, colours, shininess and places, may facilitate an appreciation of the active social role of luminosity in the practice of day-to-day activities. The article surveys an array of past conceptions of light within philosophy, natural science and more recent approaches to light in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies. A number of implications are discussed, and by way of three case studies it is argued that light may be used as a tool for exercising social intimacy and inclusion, of shaping moral spaces and hospitality, and orchestrating movement, while working as a metaphor as well as a material agent in these social negotiations. The social comprehension of light is a means of understanding social positions in ways that may be real or imagined, but are bound up on the social and cultural associations of certain lightscapes.