Nicole Boivin

Material Cultures, Material Minds

The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploration of how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social relations and our bodies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780521873970
• ISBN-10: 0521873975
• Artikelnr.: 25045296

Autorenporträt

Nicole Boivin is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Jesus College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Representation and matter
3. Words are not enough
4. The agency of matter
5. A self-made species
6. Conclusion.

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1. Introduction; 2. Representation and matter; 3. Words are not enough; 4. The agency of matter; 5. A self-made species; 6. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'This book is a brave attempt to deal with the relationships between humans and things from the perspectives of natural scientists as well as of humanists and social scientists. It is indeed remarkable how the relationships between people and things are studied in distinct and separate traditions, and Boivin is to be congratulated for having the courage to take an inclusive view. She is right that many of those who discuss modern material culture ... pay scant attention to things themselves and their material connections. ... She challenges us towards a fuller integration of human and material sciences, of socio-cultural and evolutionary perspectives.' Journal of Anthropological Research