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The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies
Author | : Dan Hicks,Mary C. Beaudry |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 2010-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780199218714 |
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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.
The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture
Author | : Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 679 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199341764 |
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"The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"--
Handbook of Material Culture
Author | : Chris Tilley,Webb Keane,Susanne Kuechler,Mike Rowlands,Patricia Spyer |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2006-01-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781446206430 |
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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.
The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
Author | : Lu Ann De Cunzo,Catharine Dann Roeber |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 932 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781108659871 |
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Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, such as anthropology, archaeology, history, and museum studies. Written by leading international scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive view of developments, methodologies and theories. It is divided into five broad themes, embracing both classic and emerging areas of research in the field. Chapters outline transformative moments in material culture scholarship, and present research from around the world, focusing on multiple material and digital media that show the scope and breadth of this exciting field. Written in an easy-to-read style, it is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals with an interest in material culture.
Understanding Material Culture
Author | : Ian Woodward |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2007-05-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781848607262 |
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"In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book." - Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University "A well-grounded and accessible survey of the burgeoning field of material culture studies for students in sociology and consumption studies. While situating the field within the history of intellectual thought in the broader social sciences, it offers detailed and accessible case studies. These are supplemented by very useful directions for further in-depth reading, making it an excellent undergraduate course companion." - Victor Buchli, University College London Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen? Why do people crave shoes or handbags? Is our desire for objects unhealthy, or irrational? Objects have an inescapable hold over us, not just in consumer culture but increasingly in the disciplines that study social relations too. This book offers a systematic overview of the diverse ways of studying the material as culture. Surveying the field of material culture studies through an examination and synthesis of classical and contemporary scholarship on objects, commodities, consumption, and symbolization, this book: introduces the key concepts and approaches in the study of objects and their meanings presents the full sweep of core theory - from Marxist and critical approaches to structuralism and semiotics shows how and why people use objects to perform identity, achieve social status, and narrativize life experiences analyzes everyday domains in which objects are important shows why studying material culture is necessary for understanding the social. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, consumer behaviour studies, design and fashion studies.
Modern Material Culture
Author | : Richard A. Gould,Michael B. Schiffer |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781483299204 |
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Modern Material Culture
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
Author | : Paul Graves-Brown,Rodney Harrison,Angela Piccini |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199602001 |
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This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding sub-field in archaeology, the study of the present and recent past. It seeks to explore the boundaries of this emerging area, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods, which are applicable to this new sub-field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research.
The Material Culture Reader
Author | : Victor Buchli |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-05-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000184167 |
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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.