Material Culture
Author | : Kenneth L. Ames |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Kenneth L. Ames |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Victor Buchli |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415267199 |
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Author | : Christopher Y. Tilley |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2006-01-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781412900393 |
Provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. This handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes a fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human.
Author | : Anna Malinowska |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317219139 |
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 | : Daniel Miller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2002-09-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135361630 |
This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something of a renaissance recently. This study provides an up-to-date analysis of a developing field in sociological and anthropological based courses.; This book is intended for undergraduate/MA courses on material culture and consumption within cultural studies and anthropology degree schemes.
Author | : Martin Brückner |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2021-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1644532042 |
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 | : Dant, Tim |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1999-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 033519821X |
This engaging book draws on established theoretical work, including that of Simmel, Marx, McLuhan, Barthes and Baudrillard as well as a range of contemporary empirical work from many humanities disciplines. It uses ideas drawn from this work to explore how we interact with objects in our everyday lives. These are not merely functional relationships with things but are connected to the way we relate to other people and the culture of the particular society we live in - they are social relations.
Author | : Arthur Asa Berger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315415836 |
Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts in communication, popular culture, and social theory, is back with the second edition of his popular, user-friendly guide for students who want to understand the social meanings of objects. In this broadly interdisciplinary text, Berger takes the reader through half a dozen theoretical models that are commonly used to analyze objects. He then describes and analyzes eleven objects, many of them new to this edition—including smartphones, Facebook, hair dye, and the American flag—showing how they demonstrate concepts like globalization, identity, and nationalism. The book includes a series of exercises that allow students to analyse objects in their own environment. Brief and inexpensive, this introductory guide will be used in courses ranging from anthropology to art history, pop culture to psychology.
Author | : Daniel Miller |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1997-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0631156054 |
Exploring materialism and social relationships in modern culture Material Culture and Mass Consumption offers an in-depth exploration of objects, objectification, ideology, and materialism in modern society. Drawing from Hegel, Marx, Munn, and Simmel, the discussion delves into the physicality of the material world and attempts to understand materialism as a form of cultural expression. Targeting mass production as the root of mass consumption, rather than the result, this book positions material goods at odds with genuine social interaction and questions these relationships from the abstract to the intensely specific.