The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies PDF eBook
Author Dan Hicks
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 794
Release 2010-09-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0199218714

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Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.

Handbook of Material Culture

Handbook of Material Culture
Title Handbook of Material Culture PDF eBook
Author Chris Tilley
Publisher SAGE
Pages 576
Release 2006-01-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1446206432

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The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe. The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. It is cutting-edge: rather than simply reviewing the field as it currently exists. It also attempts to chart the future: the manner in which material culture studies may be extended and developed. The Handbook of Material Culture is divided into five sections. • Section I maps material culture studies as a theoretical and conceptual field. • Section II examines the relationship between material forms, the human body and the senses. • Section III focuses on subject-object relations. • Section IV considers things in terms of processes and transformations in terms of production, exchange and consumption, performance and the significance of things over the long-term. • Section V considers the contemporary politics and poetics of displaying, representing and conserving material and the manner in which this impacts on notions of heritage, tradition and identity. The Handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes an unique and fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human. It will be of interest to all who work in the social and historical sciences, from anthropologists and archaeologists to human geographers to scholars working in heritage, design and cultural studies.

The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture
Title The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture PDF eBook
Author Ivan Gaskell
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 679
Release 2020-04-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0197500129

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Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing-and there are many-requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies PDF eBook
Author Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher Oxford Handbooks Online
Pages 1049
Release 2008-09-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199271569

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Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies PDF eBook
Author Trevor Pinch
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 610
Release 2012-01-05
Genre Music
ISBN 0195388941

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Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in sound studies, this handbook offers new and engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms.

The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies

The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies PDF eBook
Author Lu Ann De Cunzo
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 932
Release 2022-06-09
Genre Social Science
ISBN 110865987X

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Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, such as anthropology, archaeology, history, and museum studies. Written by leading international scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive view of developments, methodologies and theories. It is divided into five broad themes, embracing both classic and emerging areas of research in the field. Chapters outline transformative moments in material culture scholarship, and present research from around the world, focusing on multiple material and digital media that show the scope and breadth of this exciting field. Written in an easy-to-read style, it is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals with an interest in material culture.

Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies

Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies
Title Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies PDF eBook
Author Timothy Carroll
Publisher Routledge
Pages 282
Release 2020-11-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000185818

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This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, data, extraterrestriality, ethnographic curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals of now-classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact.