Material Culture
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Handbook Of Material Culture
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Author : Chris Tilley
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2006-01-05
Handbook Of Material Culture written by Chris Tilley and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-05 with Social Science categories.
The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe. The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. It is cutting-edge: rather than simply reviewing the field as it currently exists. It also attempts to chart the future: the manner in which material culture studies may be extended and developed. The Handbook of Material Culture is divided into five sections. • Section I maps material culture studies as a theoretical and conceptual field. • Section II examines the relationship between material forms, the human body and the senses. • Section III focuses on subject-object relations. • Section IV considers things in terms of processes and transformations in terms of production, exchange and consumption, performance and the significance of things over the long-term. • Section V considers the contemporary politics and poetics of displaying, representing and conserving material and the manner in which this impacts on notions of heritage, tradition and identity. The Handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes an unique and fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human. It will be of interest to all who work in the social and historical sciences, from anthropologists and archaeologists to human geographers to scholars working in heritage, design and cultural studies.
Material Cultures
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Author : Daniel Miller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-10
Material Cultures written by Daniel Miller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-10 with Social Science categories.
This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something of a renaissance recently. This study provides an up-to-date analysis of a developing field in sociological and anthropological based courses.; This book is intended for undergraduate/MA courses on material culture and consumption within cultural studies and anthropology degree schemes.
History From Things
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Author : Stephen Lubar
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2013-06-04
History From Things written by Stephen Lubar and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Art categories.
History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists. Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, History from Things leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. The book expands and redirects the study of material culture—an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.
Material Culture And Technology In Everyday Life
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Author : Phillip Vannini
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
Material Culture And Technology In Everyday Life written by Phillip Vannini and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own - one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one's body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.
Material Culture In The Social World
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Author : Tim Dant
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Release Date : 1999-08-16
Material Culture In The Social World written by Tim Dant and has been published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-16 with Social Science categories.
"This should become a core text for second year courses in sociology and cultural studies... it synthesizes a vast body of literature and a complex range of debates into a text which is at once accessible, engaging and stimulating... it will lead to students seeing and thinking about the material world in a totally new light and can be used as a way into key theoretical debates." Keith Tester, Professor of Social Theory, University of Portsmouth In what ways do we interact with material things? How do material objects affect the way we relate to each other? What are the connections between material things and social processes like fashion, discourse, art and design? Through wearing clothes, keeping furniture, responding to the ring of the telephone, noticing the signature on a painting, holding a paperweight and in many other ways, we interact with objects in our everyday lives. These are not merely functional relationships with things but are connected to the way we relate to other people and the culture of the particular society we live in - they are social relations. This engaging book draws on established theoretical work, including that of Simmel, Marx, McLuhan, Barthes and Baudrillard as well as a range of contemporary empirical work from many humanities disciplines. It uses ideas drawn from this work to explore a variety of things - from stone cairns to denim jeans, televisions to penis rings, houses to works of art - to understand something of how we live with them.
Material Culture
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Author : Victor Buchli
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2004
Material Culture written by Victor Buchli and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
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The Oxford Handbook Of Material Culture Studies
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Author : Dan Hicks
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-09-02
The Oxford Handbook Of Material Culture Studies written by Dan Hicks and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Social Science categories.
Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.
Material Culture And Mass Consumerism
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Author : Daniel Miller
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1997-12-08
Material Culture And Mass Consumerism written by Daniel Miller and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-08 with Social Science categories.
Exploring materialism and social relationships in modern culture Material Culture and Mass Consumption offers an in-depth exploration of objects, objectification, ideology, and materialism in modern society. Drawing from Hegel, Marx, Munn, and Simmel, the discussion delves into the physicality of the material world and attempts to understand materialism as a form of cultural expression. Targeting mass production as the root of mass consumption, rather than the result, this book positions material goods at odds with genuine social interaction and questions these relationships from the abstract to the intensely specific.
The Material Culture Reader
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Author : Victor Buchli
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-31
The Material Culture Reader written by Victor Buchli and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. Emerging from the pioneering work done at University College London, this reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study of material culture. With topics ranging from the anthropology of art to architecture, landscape studies, archaeology, consumption studies and heritage management, this key text reflects the breadth of material culture studies today. The authors, who discuss field sites as distant as Vanuatu, New Ireland, Trinidad and Soviet Russia, show how material culture provides a new lens for viewing the world around us and effectively bridges the gap between theory and data. Providing the first-ever synthesis of these ground-breaking essays in an easily accessible volume, this book will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the subject and a valuable reference guide for anyone interested in material culture, anthropology, art and museum studies.
Experiencing Material Culture In The Western World
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Author : Susan M. Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1997
Experiencing Material Culture In The Western World written by Susan M. Pearce and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Among the 13 contributions are studies of the role that material symbols played in the relationship between the two parts of Germany before and after the collapse of the communist states in the East; the material culture of left-handedness and its implications; the connection between modern hedonism, the repeated desire for new things and the Romantic Movement--itself an artifact of the Protestant Reformation; and the way the object world is used in the construction of fictional narrative. Distributed in the U.S. by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR