The Social Life of Materials (eBook, ePUB)

Studies in Materials and Society
Redaktion: Drazin, Adam; Küchler, Susanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as 'social' yet the materials which comprise them are considered 'raw' or natural'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000189773
• Artikelnr.: 59597007

Autorenporträt

Adam Drazin lectures in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK, where he coordinates the MA in Materials, Anthropology and Design. Susanne Küchler is Professor in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

PrefacePart I: Introduction1. To Live in a Materials WorldAdam Drazin
University College London
UKPart II: On Materials Innovation2. What's in a Plant Leaf? A Case Study of Materials Innovation in New ZealandGraeme Were
University of Queensland
Australia3. Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials Andrew Barry
Oxford University
UK4. Towards Designing New Sensoaesthetic Materials: The Role of Materials LibrariesMark Miodownik
University College London
UK5. The Science of Sensory Evaluation: An Ethnographic CritiqueDavid Howes
Concordia University
CanadaPart III: From Substance to Form6. Wild Silk Indigo Wrappers of Dogon of Mali: An Ethnography of Materials Efficacy and DesignLaurence Douny
University College London
UK7. Fashioning Plastic: Changing Materials in DesignTom Fisher
University of Nottingham
UK8. Dressing for God: Cloth as Material of Religious Subjectivity in a Hindu Group Urmila Mohan
University College London
UKPart IV: The Subversion of Form by Substance9. Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold: An Attempt to Reconfigure the Social Identity of a SubstancePeter Oakley
Royal College of Art
UK10. Subversive Plasticity: Materials' Histories and Cultural Categories in the PhilippinesDeirdre McKay
Keele University
UK11. Diamonds
Machines and Colors: Moving Materials in Ritual ExchangeFilipe Calvao
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
SwitzerlandPart V: Ecologies of Materials' Social Lives12. Sustainability and the Co-constitution of Substances and SubjectsSarah Wilkes
University College London
UK13. The Peony and the Rose: Social Change and Fragrance Marketing in China's Bath MarketChan Chow Wah
independent scholar
Singapore14. The Woollen Blanket and its Imagined Values: Material Transformations of Woollen Blankets in Contemporary ARtFiona P. McDonald
University College London
UKThe Implications of Materials Innovation and Disposal15. Materials: The Story of UseSusanne Küchler
University College London
UKIndex