Earthy Matters is a lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds. The focus of the book is sediments, soils, clay and earth ? materials that surround us and have shaped people's interactions with the environment since even before the first farmers settled in the Near East tilling the earth, building houses from mud and plaster, and making vessels and figurines from clay. This collection questions orthodox understandings that these substances are inert and an infinite resource for humanity, rather to foreground earthy substances in their relationships with humans, and to show how these materials have co-created our social and material worlds. It is a novel and timely reminder for the reader that our lives have always been embedded within the matter of the E(e)arth.
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Earthy Matters
Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Quivering Potential of Earthy Matter
- 2 In the Red: Earthy Humans and the Generative Qualities of Ochre
- 3 Hard Core, Soft Touches: A Story of Affect between Caves, Rocks and Humans
- 4 Plastered: People-Plaster Relationships in the Neolithic Near East
- 5 A Melding of Models: A New Materialisms Approach to the Earthy Constituents in the âCeremonialâ Hoard from Kissonerga Mosphilia
- 6 âCorbusian Piggeriesâ and âToytown Cottagesâ: The Social Lives of Concrete and Brick in Twentieth-Century Liverpool
- 7 Plastic Earth: Somatic Correspondences with Legacy Contaminants in Archaeology and Anthropology
- 8 Biomorphic Ceramics
- 9 Our Bodies and Soils: The Art of Making Compost and Becoming Places
- Notes
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