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Handbook of Material Culture (Paperback)
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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.
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