Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including: _ why do Berliners have such strange door keys? _ should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved? _ could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket _ why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?
Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including: _ why do Berliners have such strange door keys? _ should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved? _ could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket _ why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?
P.M. Graves-Brown studied Archaeology and Prehistory at Sheffield University and gained his PhD in archaeology at Southampton University. He currently works as an archaeological curator in South Wales. He has published a wider variety of work, mainly on human origins and modern material culture.
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Introduction PAUL GRAVES-BROWN Background Embodiment Mutuality Functionality and power Indigenous theory and illusion 1 The Berlin key or how to do words with things, BRUNO LATOUR 2 The functions of things: a philosophical perspective on material culture, BETH PRESTON Introduction Two philosophical conceptions of function Function in material culture Implications for archaeology Conclusion 3 Making culture and weaving the world, TIM INGOLD Artefacts and organisms Making and growing On encountering a basket Surface, force and the generation of form Spirals in nature and art The limits of design On the growth of artefacts Baskets and textiles Making as a way of weaving Weaving by birds and humans Conclusion 4 Indigenous theories, scientific theories and product histories, MICHAEL BRIAN SCHIFFER Introduction Indigenous theories and the demise of the early electric car Indigenous theory: the dark side Behavioural theories and scientific product histories Discussion and conclusion 5 Taking things more seriously: psychological theories of autism and the material-social divide, EMMA WILLIAMS AND ALAN COSTALL The social context of object use How children with autism relate to objects Current theoretical models of autism and the material-social divide The material-social divide 'Socialising' affordances Conclusion 6 Pomp and circumstance: archaeology, modernity and the corporatisation of death: early social and political Victorian attitudes towards burial practice, GEORGE NASH Introduction: the growth of secularised society Good mourning: respectability of death Time for change Health and social security Ascending Highgate Hill Termination at the London Necropolis Company Terminus To summarise 7 Never mind the relevance? popular culture for archaeologists, A.J. SCHOFIELD Snapshots Introducing popular culture Heritage and anti-heritage: definitions, contradictions Exploring youth culture: 1962-75 Conclusion 8 Always crashing in the same car, PAUL GRAVES-BROWN Habitat or skin? The secret life of things Symbolic wounds Pornography Risk and control In conclusion: who, or what, is to blame? Index
Introduction PAUL GRAVES-BROWN Background Embodiment Mutuality Functionality and power Indigenous theory and illusion 1 The Berlin key or how to do words with things, BRUNO LATOUR 2 The functions of things: a philosophical perspective on material culture, BETH PRESTON Introduction Two philosophical conceptions of function Function in material culture Implications for archaeology Conclusion 3 Making culture and weaving the world, TIM INGOLD Artefacts and organisms Making and growing On encountering a basket Surface, force and the generation of form Spirals in nature and art The limits of design On the growth of artefacts Baskets and textiles Making as a way of weaving Weaving by birds and humans Conclusion 4 Indigenous theories, scientific theories and product histories, MICHAEL BRIAN SCHIFFER Introduction Indigenous theories and the demise of the early electric car Indigenous theory: the dark side Behavioural theories and scientific product histories Discussion and conclusion 5 Taking things more seriously: psychological theories of autism and the material-social divide, EMMA WILLIAMS AND ALAN COSTALL The social context of object use How children with autism relate to objects Current theoretical models of autism and the material-social divide The material-social divide 'Socialising' affordances Conclusion 6 Pomp and circumstance: archaeology, modernity and the corporatisation of death: early social and political Victorian attitudes towards burial practice, GEORGE NASH Introduction: the growth of secularised society Good mourning: respectability of death Time for change Health and social security Ascending Highgate Hill Termination at the London Necropolis Company Terminus To summarise 7 Never mind the relevance? popular culture for archaeologists, A.J. SCHOFIELD Snapshots Introducing popular culture Heritage and anti-heritage: definitions, contradictions Exploring youth culture: 1962-75 Conclusion 8 Always crashing in the same car, PAUL GRAVES-BROWN Habitat or skin? The secret life of things Symbolic wounds Pornography Risk and control In conclusion: who, or what, is to blame? Index
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