Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of material culture studies /
"The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and Science and Technology Studies, through twenty-eight specially commissi...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2010 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and Science and Technology Studies, through twenty-eight specially commissioned essays by leading international researchers, the volume explores contemporary issues and debates in a series of themed sections--Disciplinary Perspectives, Material Practices, Objects and Humans, Landscapes and the Built Environment, and Studying Particular Things. From Coca-Cola, chimpanzees, artworks, and ceramics, to museums, cities, human bodies, and magical objects, the Handbook is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in materiality and the place of material objects in human social life, both past and present. A comprehensive bibliography enhances its usefulness as a research tool."--Publisher's website. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 774 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [646]-758) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198822554 0198822553 9780199218714 0199218714 |
| Index Number: | GN406 |
| CLC: | K851-03 |
| Call Number: | K851-03/O984 |
| Contents: |
material culture studies : a reactionary view / The material-cultural turn : event and effect / Material geographies / Material culture in folklife studies / Material histories / The materials of STS / Material culture and the dance of agency / Consumption / Fieldwork and collecting / Gifts and exchange / Art as action, art as evidence / Archaeological assemblages and practices of deposition / Technology and material life / The malice of inanimate objects : material agency / From identity and material culture to personhood and materiality / Materiality and embodiment / Material culture in primates / Cultural landscapes / Ecological landscapes / Urban materialities : meaning, magnitude, friction, and outcomes / Architecture and cultural history / Households and "home cultures" / Stone tools / The landscape garden as material culture : lessons from France / Built objects / Ceramics (as containers) / Magical things : on fetishes, commodities, and computers / fings ain't wot they use t' be : thinking through material thinking as placing and arrangement / |