Understanding Material Culture
Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people crave shoes or handbags? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen? This book offers a systematic overview of the diverse ways of studying the material as culture. Is our desire… Celý popis ↓
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Understanding Material Culture
Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people crave shoes or handbags? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen?
This book offers a systematic overview of the diverse ways of studying the material as culture. Is our desire for objects unhealthy, or irrational?Objects have an inescapable hold over us, not just in consumer culture but increasingly in the disciplines that study social relations too. Surveying the field of material culture studies through an examination and synthesis of classical and contemporary scholarship on objects, commodities, consumption, and symbolization, this book: " Introduces the key concepts and approaches in the study of objects and their meanings; " Presents the full sweep of core theory - from Marxist and critical approaches to structuralism and semiotics - to evaluate the
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