Material Cultures, Material Minds - The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution (Hardcover)

Material culture has been part of a distinctively human way of life for over two million years. Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much attention to the role of material culture in human society, emphasizing the representational and ideological aspects of the material world. These studies have, nonetheless, often overlooked how the very physicality of material culture and our material surroundings make them unique and distinctive from text and discourse. In this study, Nicole Boivin explores how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social relations, and even our bodies. Focusing on the agency of material culture, she draws on the work of a diverse range of thinkers, from Marx and Merleau-Ponty to Darwin, while highlighting a wide selection of new studies in archaeology, cultural anthropology, history, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology. She asks what is distinctive about material culture compared to other aspects of human culture and presents a comprehensive overview of material agency that has much to offer to both scholars and students

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Nicole Boivin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-87397-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological theory
LSN:	0-521-87397-5
Barcode:	9780521873970

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