Handbook of material culture / ed. by Christopher Tilley ....
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TextPublication details: London [u.a.] : SAGE, 2009.Edition: ReprDescription: XVII, 556 p. : Ill., graph. Darst., KtISBN: - 1412900395
- 9781412900393
- 306 TIL
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. This handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes a fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Theoretical Perspectives
- In the Matter of Marxism
- Structuralism and Semiotics
- Phenomenology and Material Culture
- Objectification
- Agency, Biography and Objects
- Scenes from a Troubled Engagement
- Post-structuralism and Material Culture Studies
- Colonial Matters
- Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations
- The Body, Materiality and the Senses
- Four Types of Visual Culture
- Food, Eating, and the Good Life
- Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia
- Intersensuality and Material Culture
- The Colours of Things
- Inside and Outside
- Surfaces and Containers
- Subjects and Objects
- Cloth and Clothing
- Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors
- Vernacular Architecture
- Architecture and Modernism
- "Primitivism," Anthropology and the Category of "Primitive Art"
- Tracking Globalization
- Commodities and Value in Motion
- Place and Landscape
- Cultural Memory
- Process and Transformation
- Technology as Material Culture
- Consumption
- Design, Style and Function
- Exchange
- Performance
- Present to Past
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Material Culture and Long-term Change
- Presentation and Politics
- Intellectual Property and Rights
- An Anthropological Perspective
- Heritage and the Present Past
- Museums and Museum Displays
- Monuments and Memorials
- Conservation as Material Culture
- Collectors and Collecting