Material Cultures, Material Minds

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Beschreibung

Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much attention to the role of material culture in human society, emphasising the representational and ideological aspects of the material world. These studies have, nonetheless, often overlooked how the very physicality of material culture and our material surroundings make them unique and distinctive from text and discourse. In this book, Boivin explores how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social relations and even our bodies. Focusing on the agency of material culture, she draws on the work of a diverse range of thinkers, from Marx and Merleau-Ponty to Darwin, while highlighting a wide selection of studies in archaeology, cultural anthropology, history, cognitive science and evolutionary biology. She asks what is distinctive about material culture compared to other aspects of human culture and presents a comprehensive overview of material agency that has much to offer to both scholars and students.

Über den Autor

Nicole Boivin is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Jesus College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Representation and matter; 3. Words are not enough; 4. The agency of matter; 5. A self-made species; 6. Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521176132
ISBN-10:	0521176131
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Boivin, Nicole
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Nicole Boivin
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2010
Gewicht:	0,421 kg