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Handbook of material culture

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
Print Book, English, 2006
SAGE, London, 2006
Reference works
xvii, 556 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9781412900393, 9781446206430, 1412900395, 1446206432
61879101
In the matter of Marxism / Bill Maurer
Structuralism and semiotics / Robert Layton
Phenomenology and material culture / Julian Thomas
Objectification / Christopher Tilley
Agency, biography and objects / Janet Hoskins
Scenes from a troubled engagement : post-structuralism and material culture studies / Bjørnar Olsen
Colonial matters : material culture and postcolonial theory in colonial situations / Peter van Dommelen
Four types of visual culture / Christopher Pinney
Food, eating, and the good life / Judith Farquhar
Scent, sound and synaesthesia : intersensoriality and material culture theory / David Howes
The colours of things / Diana Young
Inside and outside : surfaces and containers / Jean-Pierre Warnier
Cloth and clothing / Jane Schneider
Home furnishing and domestic interiors / Robert St. George
Vernacular architecture / Suzanne Preston Blier
Architecture and modernism / Victor Buchli
'Primitivism', anthropology, and the category of 'primitive art' / Fred Myers
Tracking globalization : commodities and value in motion / Robert J. Foster
Place and landscape / Barbara Bender
Cultural memory / Paul Connerton
Technology as material culture / Ron Eglash
Consumption / Daniel Miller
Style, design, and function / Margaret W. Conkey
Exchange / James G. Carrier
Performance / Jon P. Mitchell
Present to past : ethnoarchaeology / Paul Lane
Material culture and long-term change / Chris Gosden
Intellectual property and rights : an anthropological perspective / Marilyn Strathern
Heritage and the present past / Beverley Butler
Museums and museum displays / Anthony Alan Shelton
Monuments and memorials / Michael Rowlands and Christopher Tilley
Conservation as material culture / Diana Eastop
Collectors and collecting / Russell Belk
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