Handbook of Material Culture
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Handbook of Material Culture

  1. 576 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Handbook of Material Culture

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations and Tables
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
  7. Chapter 1 - In the Matter of Marxism
  8. Chapter 2 - Structuralism and Semiotics
  9. Chapter 3 - Phenomenology and Material Culture
  10. Chapter 4 - Objectification
  11. Chapter 5 - Agency, Biography and Objects
  12. Chapter 6 - Secnes from a Troubled Engagement
  13. Chapter 7 - Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations
  14. Part II: The Body, Materiality and the Senses
  15. Chapter 8 - Four types of Visual Culture
  16. Chapter 9 - Food, Eating, and the Good Life
  17. Chapter 10 - Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture Theory
  18. Chapter 11 - The Colours of Things
  19. Chapter 12 - Inside and Outside: Surface and Containers
  20. Part III: Subjects and Objects
  21. Chapter 13 - Cloth and Clothing
  22. Chapter 14 - Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors
  23. Chapter 15 - Vernacular Architecture
  24. Chapter 16 - Architecture and Modernism
  25. Chapter 17 - 'Primitivism', Anthropology, and the Category of 'Primitive Art'
  26. Chapter 18 - Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion
  27. Chapter 19 - Place and landscape
  28. Chapter 20 - Cultural memory
  29. Part IV: Process and Transformation
  30. Chapter 21 - Technilogy ad Material Culture
  31. Chaper 22 - Consumption
  32. Chapter 23 - Style, Design, and Function
  33. Chapter 24 - Exchange
  34. Chapter 25 - Performance
  35. Chapter 26 - Present to Past: Ethnoarchaeology
  36. Chapter 27 - Material Culture and Long-term Change
  37. Part V: Presentation and Politics
  38. Chapter 28 - Intellectual Property and Rights: An Anthropological Perspective
  39. Chapter 29 - Heritage and the Present Past
  40. Chapter 30 - Museums and Museum Displays
  41. Chapter 31 - Monuments and Memorials
  42. Chapter 32 - Conservation as Material Culture
  43. Chapter 33 - Collectors and Collecting
  44. Index