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The Nail in the Man’s Leg

Year: 1969

Type: article

Abstract: This article aims at situating the ethnographic dimensional shift of a found object. This essay takes a look at the journey of a nail object and its many dimensions in relationship to the human encountering the nail-object, and in the situation of the many worlds the nail object inhabits. Burning Man festival, in this essay, serves as the dynamic stage for such study of relationships.

Source: Contingent Horizons The York University Student Journal of Anthropology

DOI: 10.25071/2292-6739.80

Author: Christine cricri Bellerose

Institution: York University

Language: English

Topic: Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2963810529

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