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Handbook of material culture / edited by Christopher Tilley ... [et al.]

By: Publication details: Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2006.Description: xvii, 556 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781412900393
  • 1412900395
  • 9781446270561
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Contents:
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 1 - In the Matter of Marxism; Chapter 2 - Structuralism and Semiotics; Chapter 3 - Phenomenology and Material Culture; Chapter 4 - Objectification; Chapter 5 - Agency, Biography and Objects; Chapter 6 - Secnes from a Troubled Engagement; Chapter 7 - Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations
Part II: The Body, Materiality and the Senses; Chapter 8 - Four types of Visual Culture; Chapter 9 - Food, Eating, and the Good Life; Chapter 10 - Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture TheoryChapter 11 - The Colours of Things; Chapter 12 - Inside and Outside: Surface and Containers
Part III: Subjects and Objects; Chapter 13 - Cloth and Clothing; Chapter 14 - Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors; Chapter 15 - Vernacular Architecture; Chapter 16 - Architecture and Modernism; Chapter 17 - 'Primitivism', Anthropology, and the Category of 'Primitive Art'; Chapter 18 - Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion; Chapter 19 - Place and landscape; Chapter 20 - Cultural memory
Part IV: Process and TransformationChapter 21 - Technilogy ad Material Culture; Chaper 22 - Consumption; Chapter 23 - Style, Design, and Function; Chapter 24 - Exchange; Chapter 25 - Performance; Chapter 26 - Present to Past: Ethnoarchaeology; Chapter 27 - Material Culture and Long-term Change
Part V: Presentation and Politics; Chapter 28 - Intellectual Property and Rights: An Anthropological Perspective; Chapter 29 - Heritage and the Present Past; Chapter 30 - Museums and Museum Displays; Chapter 31 - Monuments and Memorials; Chapter 32 - Conservation as Material Culture Chapter 33 - Collectors and Collecting
Summary: 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.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 306.46 TIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 07927

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 1 - In the Matter of Marxism; Chapter 2 - Structuralism and Semiotics; Chapter 3 - Phenomenology and Material Culture; Chapter 4 - Objectification; Chapter 5 - Agency, Biography and Objects; Chapter 6 - Secnes from a Troubled Engagement; Chapter 7 - Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations

Part II: The Body, Materiality and the Senses; Chapter 8 - Four types of Visual Culture; Chapter 9 - Food, Eating, and the Good Life; Chapter 10 - Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture TheoryChapter 11 - The Colours of Things; Chapter 12 - Inside and Outside: Surface and Containers

Part III: Subjects and Objects; Chapter 13 - Cloth and Clothing; Chapter 14 - Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors; Chapter 15 - Vernacular Architecture; Chapter 16 - Architecture and Modernism; Chapter 17 - 'Primitivism', Anthropology, and the Category of 'Primitive Art'; Chapter 18 - Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion; Chapter 19 - Place and landscape; Chapter 20 - Cultural memory

Part IV: Process and TransformationChapter 21 - Technilogy ad Material Culture; Chaper 22 - Consumption; Chapter 23 - Style, Design, and Function; Chapter 24 - Exchange; Chapter 25 - Performance; Chapter 26 - Present to Past: Ethnoarchaeology; Chapter 27 - Material Culture and Long-term Change

Part V: Presentation and Politics; Chapter 28 - Intellectual Property and Rights: An Anthropological Perspective; Chapter 29 - Heritage and the Present Past; Chapter 30 - Museums and Museum Displays; Chapter 31 - Monuments and Memorials; Chapter 32 - Conservation as Material Culture
Chapter 33 - Collectors and Collecting

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.