Materiality: An Introduction / Daniel Miller 1
Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are / Lynn Meskell 51
A Materialist Approach to Materiality / Michael Rowlands 72
Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange / Fred Myers 88
Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing / Matthew Engelke 118
Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms / Bill Maurer 140
The Materiality of Finance Theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki 165
Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things / Webb Keane 182
Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things / Susanne Kuchler 206
Beyond Meditation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences / Nigel Thrift 231
Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? / Christopher Pinney 256
Contributors 273
Index 277