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

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" A Noncoherent Governance: Tinkering with Stones in the Old City of Acre "
Davis, Caitlin M. Field, Les

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1053193
Doc. No	:	TL52310
Main Entry	:	Davis, Caitlin M.
Title & Author	:	A Noncoherent Governance: Tinkering with Stones in the Old City of Acre\ Davis, Caitlin M.Field, Les
College	:	The University of New Mexico
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	313 p.
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Architecture
	:	Cultural anthropology
	:	Philosophy of science
Added Entry	:	Field, Les
Added Entry	:	The University of New Mexico