Contextual Studies Of Material Culture

Author : Chris Tilley
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781446270561
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Material Culture written by Chris Tilley and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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." This cutting-edge work examines the current state of material culture as well as how this field of study may be extended and developed in the future.

Author : Phillip Vannini
Publisher : Peter Lang Us
ISBN 13 : 9781433103025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life written by Phillip Vannini and published by Peter Lang Us. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own - one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one's body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.

Author : David W. Zimmerly
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 177282206X
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contextual studies of material culture written by David W. Zimmerly and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers focusing on a contextual assessment of Native material culture research plus commentary on the current state of such studies and identification of possible future trends.

Author : Anna Malinowska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317219120
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Materiality and Popular Culture written by Anna Malinowska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.

Author : Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138776753
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Lives of Things written by Anne Gerritsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things,' ranging from commodities, to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of 'globalisation' in the early modern period. This volume traces the movements of objects through human networks of commerce, colonialism and curiosity. It argues that material objects mediated between the forces of global economic exchange and the constantly changing identities of individuals, as they were drawn into global circuits"--Provided by publishe

Author : Martin Brückner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644532042
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Archives written by Martin Brückner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1857286855
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Cultures written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays which present a balanced survey between theoretical discussions on the one hand and case-study research on the other. This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures.

Author : Victor Buchli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415267199
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Culture written by Victor Buchli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

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Author : Barrie Reynolds
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Anthropology written by Barrie Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers presented at a symposium at the eleventh International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in 1982, summarizing what the participants view to be important directions for growth and development in material studies and highlighting exciting recent material culture research.