Beschreibung:
Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.
Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.
1: Dan Hicks & Mary C. Beaudry: Introduction; I. Disciplinary Perspectives; 2: Dan Hicks: The Material-Cultural Turn; 3: Ian Cook & Divya Tolia-Kelly: Material Geographies; 4: Robert St George: Folklife; 5: Ann Stahl: Material Histories; 6: John Law: The Materials of STS; II. Material Practices; 7: Andrew Pickering: Material Culture and the Dance of Agency; 8: Michael Dietler: Consumption; 9: Gavin Lucas: Fieldwork and Collecting; 10: Hirokazu Miyazaki: Gifts and Exchange; 11: Howard Morphy: Art as Action, Art as Evidence; 12: Rosemary Joyce with Joshua Pollard: Archaeological Assemblages and Practices of Deposition; III. Objects and Humans; 13: Kacy L. Hollenback & Michael B. Schiffer: Technology ande Material Life; 14: Andy Jones & Nicole Boivin: The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Material Agency; 15: Chris Fowler: `Personhood' and Identity; 16: Zoe Crossland: Materiality and Embodiment; 17: Tatyana Hulme: Material Culture in Primates; IV. Landscapes and the Built Environment; 18: Lesley Head: Cultural Landscapes; 19: Sarah Whatmore & Steve Hinchliffe: Ecological Landscapes; 20: Roland Fletcher: Urban Materialities: Meaning, Magnitude, Friction, and Outcomes; 21: Carl Lounsbury: Architecture and Cultural History; 22: Victor Buchli: Households and `Home Cultures'; V. Studying Particular Things; 23: Rodney Harrison: Stone Tools; 24: Chandra Mukerji: The Landscape Garden as Material Culture: Lessons from France; 25: Douglass W. Bailey & Lesley McFadyen: Built Objects; 26: Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris & Peter Tomkins: Ceramics (as Containers); 27: Peter J. Pels: Magical Things: On Fetishes, Commodities, and Computers; Nigel Thrift: Afterword: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be: Thinking Through Material Thinking as Placing and Arrangement