· 2020
The Material Culture Reader
- 356citations
- 2020year
Short summary
This is an edited collection of introductions to key themes in material culture studies, covering topics from metaphor and art to heritage, landscape, memory, architecture, and consumption.
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Key points
- Explores the intersection of metaphor, materiality, and interpretation in understanding objects.
- Covers the anthropology of art, visual culture, and photographic portraiture.
- Examines heritage, cultural property, and the politics of landscape.
- Investigates material culture related to memory, conflict, and architecture.
- Analyzes consumption through the lens of specific products like Coca-Cola.
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Abstract
1 Introduction. Victor Buchli 2 Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation Chris Tilley Introduction 'The Metaphorical Transformations of Wala Canoes' 3 The Anthropology of Art. Susanne Kchler Introduction 'Binding in the Pacific: Between Loops and Knots' 4 Visual Culture. Chris Pinney Introduction 'Photographic portraiture in Central India in the 1980s and 1990s' 5 Heritage and Cultural Property. Mike Rowlands Introduction 'The Power of Origins: Questions of Cultural Rights' 6 Landscape and Politics. Barbara Bender Introduction 'Contested Landscapes: Medieval to Present Day' 7 Memory and Conflict. Nicholas Saunders Introduction 'Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory: Trench Art and the Great War Re-cycled' 8 Architecture and the Domestic Sphere. Victor Buchli Introduction 'Khrushchev, Modernism and the Fight against Petit-bourgeois Consciousness in the Soviet Home' 9 Consumption. Danny Miller Introduction 'Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad'
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