Understanding material culture / Ian Woodward.
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TextPublisher: Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications, 2007Description: vii, 191 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0761942262
- 9780761942269
- 0761942254
- 9780761942252
- 306.46 22
- GN406 .W66 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
Pt. I. Locating material culture -- 1. The material as culture : definitions, perspectives, approaches -- 2. Studying material culture : origins and premises -- Pt. II. Theoretical approaches to studying material culture -- 3. The deceptive, suspicious object : Marxist and critical approaches -- 4. The object as symbolic code : structural and semiotic approaches -- 5. The material representing the cultural universe : objects, symbols and cultural categories -- Pt. III. Objects in action -- 6. Objects and distinction : the aesthetic field and expressive materiality -- 7. Material culture and identity : objects and the self -- 8. Material culture, narratives and social performance : objects in contexts -- Pt. IV. Conclusion -- 9. Conclusion : objects and meaning in consumer culture.
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