Playing With Things
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Author | : Mary Weismantel |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 147732321X |
More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex organs and sex acts, and an array of solitary and interconnected human and nonhuman bodies. To the modern eye, these Moche “sex pots,” as Mary Weismantel calls them, are lively and provocative but also enigmatic creations whose import to their original owners seems impossible to grasp. In Playing with Things, Weismantel shows that there is much to be learned from these ancient artifacts, not merely as inert objects from a long-dead past but as vibrant Indigenous things, alive in their own human temporality. From a new materialist perspective, she fills the gaps left by other analyses of the sex pots in pre-Columbian studies, where sexuality remains marginalized, and in sexuality studies, where non-Western art is largely absent. Taking a decolonial approach toward an archaeology of sexuality and breaking with long-dominant iconographic traditions, this book explores how the “pots play jokes, make babies, give power, and hold water,” considering the sex pots as actual ceramic bodies that interact with fleshly bodies, now and in the ancient past. A beautifully written study that will be welcomed by students as well as specialists, Playing with Things is a model for archaeological and art historical engagement with the liberating power of queer theory and Indigenous studies.
Author | : Graeme Wilson |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2018-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789690765 |
This study represents a reappraisal of the relationship between play — an activity which is most often understood in terms of something ‘set apart’ — and everyday life. Via a series of archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic investigations, it leads towards the conclusion that play is not in fact so separate as is often assumed.
Author | : Susanna Paasonen |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2018-11-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1906897840 |
Exploring sex—bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections—in terms of play and playfulness. We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their diverse sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. Yet little attention has been paid to thinking through the interconnections of sex and play, sexuality and playfulness. In Many Splendored Things from Goldsmiths Press, Susanna Paasonen considers these interconnections. Paasonen examines the notions of playfulness and play as they shed light on the urgency of sexual pleasures, the engrossing appeal of sex, and the elasticity of sexual desires, and considers their connection to categories of identity. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship on sexuality, play, and the media, Paasonen moves from the conceptual to the concrete, examining advice literature on sexual play, the vernacular aesthetics of the Fifty Shades series, girls' experiences of online sexual role-playing, popular media coverage of age-play, and Jan Soldat's documentary films on BDSM culture. Paasonen argues that play in the realm of sexuality involves experimentation with what bodies can feel and do and what people may imagine themselves as doing, liking, and preferring. Play involves the exploration of different bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections. Occasionally strained, dark, and even hurtful in the forms that it takes and the sensory intensities that it engenders, sex presses against previously perceived and imagined horizons of embodied potentiality. Play pushes sexual identifications into motion.
Author | : Ilka Heinemann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781449485290 |
Have you ever found yourself mindlessly checking your phone for updates, or playing some pointless game? In fact, do you ever do anything else, when on the bus or on the train, than sit glued to the screen? Research shows that the average person spends 23 days a year wasting time on their mobile phone. That's four years of your life! In 101 Things to Do Instead of Playing on Your Phone, Ilka Heinemann has devised an imaginative list of alternative activities to cure us of our portable tech addiction. These are more than mere time-killers - they are ways to unleash your creative side, to learn facts or train your brain; some will even set you on the road to happiness and mindfulness.
Author | : Bethaney Nielsen |
Publisher | : Bethaney Nielsen |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0992323916 |
‘Don’t Play with Dead Things’ is a collection of 30 short stories, made up of exactly 100 words, filled with horror and dark humour, perfect for when the sun goes down. Here you will see why you shouldn’t play with dead things, when: A clown discovers it’s not so scary… The women show the men who’s boss… Kitchen appliances get even… Toys want to play with you… Trick or Treating is not that much fun… Monsters are good-old fashion monsters, and more.
Author | : Gakken early childhood experts |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2023-10-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 4056212376 |
With over 500 stickers and 48 activities, this sticker workbook provides hours of learning fun! Children can enjoy putting stickers on familiar objects such as animals, sea creatures, vehicles, food, vegetables, fruit, plants, pets, and more. This sticker workbook, created for children ages 2–4, includes over 500 colorful stickers featuring children’s favorite things. Your child will develop the desire to learn while playing with stickers. Solving problems while using stickers helps children develop preschool readiness skills, such as recognition of letters, numbers, shapes, and colors as well as fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. It includes the following themes: Numbers Letters Shapes Creativity Classification Picture Puzzles Matching Games Mazes Patterns
Author | : Mrs. Inchbald |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465520287 |
Author | : George Colman |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1808 |
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Author | : Elizabeth born Simpson Inchbald |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1808 |
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Author | : Dr. James M Perdue |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1449768695 |
At age sixteen, James grew-up fast when his father died. He played baseball in high school and received a college scholarship. Concerned about his mother and brothers, he hoped his athletic talent would lead to a financially successful professional baseball career. Then, one day, while playing a pick-up football game, James was seriously injured and diagnosed a quadriplegic. He asked the doctor, How bad is it? The doctor responded, Bad enough. Youll never walk again and possibly not move from the neck down. Thankfully, God placed James within a family that didnt accept such advice. After years of hard work, fortitude, and perseverance, he was able to return to college. After completing his bachelors degree, it took him three years to land a teaching contract. Prospective employers saw the wheelchair not the applicant. As an educator, James received teaching and coaching awards. Confident, he decided to return to college. After completing his doctoral degree in May 2011, James became a motivational speaker encouraging other people to triumph over tragedies. He knows all of this would not have been possible without God in his life, his familys support, and his personal values the desire to succeed in life and overcome adversities.