Wild things : the material culture of everyday life / Judy Attfield.
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TextSeries: Materializing culturePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.Description: xv, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1859733697
- 306 ATT
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 306 ATT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000389636 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing become so important because the high tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point in objects lives. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings that reflect and assert who we are. Defining design as things with attitude differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary artefacts that are taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to clutter, the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. But beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Preface (p. xi)
- Introdiciton the Material Culture of Everyday Life (p. 1)
- Part I Things (p. 9)
- 1 The Meaning of Design: Things with Attritude (p. 11)
- 2 The Meaning of Things: Design in the Lower Case (p. 45)
- 3 Things and the Dynamics of the Social Changes (p. 75)
- Part II Themes (p. 97)
- 4 Continuity: Authenticity and the Paradoxical Nature of Reproduction (p. 99)
- 5 Change: the Ephemeral Materiality of Identity (p. 121)
- 6 Containment: the Ecology of Personal Possessions (p. 149)
- Part III Contexts (p. 173)
- 7 Space: Where Things Take Place (p. 177)
- 8 Time: Bringing Things to Life (p. 213)
- 9 The Body: the Threshold between Nature and Culture (p. 237)
- Conclusion (p. 263)
- Bibliography (p. 267)
- Index (p. 287)