Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Graves-Brown, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135107925
• Artikelnr.: 38449192

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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