عنوان

A Noncoherent Governance: Tinkering with Stones in the Old City of Acre

Number

TL52310

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

A Noncoherent Governance: Tinkering with Stones in the Old City of Acre

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Davis, Caitlin M.

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Field, Les

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of New Mexico

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

Text of Note

313 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

The University of New Mexico

Text preceding or following the note

2019

Text of Note

This dissertation recounts a series of episodes in the architectural conservation of the Old City of Acre in Israel. It studies the stones and mortars, residents and inspectors, papers and computers involved in the conservation of historic buildings, highlighting the moments in which the technical details of architectural conservation entangle themselves with the administrative techniques of government authorities. I describe architectural conservation as a tentative process, one that requires the coordination of various actants into precarious associations. Here, description is important. The pages that follow experiment with an anthropological practice that writes against conclusion. This is an anthropology that refuses to privilege a knowing subject and a stable world. Instead, it opts to tinker with noncoherent forms of analysis, forms that can grapple with realities that can always be done differently.

Subject Term

Architecture

Subject Term

Cultural anthropology

Subject Term

Philosophy of science

Davis, Caitlin M.

Field, Les

The University of New Mexico

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

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