{"product_id":"the-lives-of-objects-maia-kotrosits-9780226707440","title":"The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity","description":"Our lives are filled with objects--ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects, looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture, she examines objects of \u003ci\u003eattachment\u003c\/i\u003e--relationships, ideas, and beliefs that live on in the psyche--and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life. Engaging with classical studies, history, anthropology, and literary, gender, and queer studies, Kotrosits shows how these disciplines address historical knowledge and how an expanded definition of materiality can help us make connections between antiquity and the contemporary world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maia Kotrosits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022670744X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226707440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021","brand":"Maia Kotrosits","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424988643583,"sku":"9780226707440","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dedc4eab-5b8f-4f8c-a44f-7fa02517e860.jpg?v=1761536233","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lives-of-objects-maia-kotrosits-9780226707440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}