Materiality

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Exploring the varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present, this book assesses the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity.

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Full title :Materiality / edited by Daniel Miller.

Summary

Exploring the varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present, this book assesses the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham, N.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (294 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822386711, 0822386712
oclc:ocn226068116
LC Classification:GN406
Dewey Decimal:146.3

Objects in the mirror appear closer than they are / Lynn Meskell -- A materialist approach to materiality / Michael Rowlands -- Some properties of art and culture : ontologies of the image and economics of exchange / Fred Myers -- Sticky subjects and sticky objects : the substance of African Christian healing / Matthew Engelke -- Does money matter? : abstraction and substitution in alternative financial forms / Bill Maurer -- The materiality of finance theory / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- Signs are not the garb of meaning : on the social analysis of material things / Webb Keane -- Materiality and cognition : the changing face of things / Susanne Küchler -- Beyond mediation : three new material registers and their consequences / Nigel Thrift -- Things happen : or, from which moment does that object come? / Christopher Pinney.

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Culture matérielle Material culture material culture (discipline) materialism materialisme Materialität PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys Sachkultur SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology