The modern world around us is more mysterious than we think. This book looks beneath the surface of modern material culture to ask how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies, and how and why it is that we have made the material culture that surrounds us. "Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture" offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, from academics prominent in disciplines ranging from archaeology to philosophy and psychology. All have diverse perspectives on what material culture is, but all are equally concerned with how the very material nature of artefacts comes to form human life.…mehr
The modern world around us is more mysterious than we think. This book looks beneath the surface of modern material culture to ask how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies, and how and why it is that we have made the material culture that surrounds us. "Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture" offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, from academics prominent in disciplines ranging from archaeology to philosophy and psychology. All have diverse perspectives on what material culture is, but all are equally concerned with how the very material nature of artefacts comes to form human life.
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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