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Material culture in the social world : values, activities, lifestyles / Tim Dant.
By: Dant, Tim
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BookPublisher: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open Univeristy Press, 1999Description: 227 p. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0335198228.Subject(s): Material culture | Social interactionDDC classification: 306
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00088907 |
Total holds: 0
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Through wearing clothes, keeping furniture, responding to the telephone, noticing the signature on a painting, we interact with objects in our everyday lives. These are not merely functional relationships with things but are connected to the way we relate to other people and the culture of the particular society we live in.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- 1 Introduction: the cairn and the mini-strip (p. 1)
- 2 Consuming or living with things? (p. 17)
- 3 Fetishism and the social value of objects (p. 40)
- 4 Building and dwelling (p. 60)
- 5 Wearing it out: written and material clothing (p. 85)
- 6 Playing with things: interacting with a windsurfer (p. 110)
- 7 Objects in time: modernity and biography (p. 130)
- 8 Turn it on: objects that mediate (p. 153)
- 9 Who's what? People as objects (p. 176)
- 10 Conclusion (p. 196)
- Further reading (p. 202)
- Bibliography (p. 205)
- Index (p. 219)