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HANDBOOK

of
MATERIAL CULTURE

Edited by
CHRISTOPHER TILLEY,
WEBB KEANE,
SUSANNE KÜCHLER,
MIKE ROWLANDS
AND
PATRICIA SPYER

®SAGE
Los Angeles | London ( New Delhi
Singapore | Washington DC
CONTENTS

List of illustrations and tables viii


Notes on contributors xi
Introduction 1

Part I Theoretical Perspectives 7


Introduction by Christopher Tilley
1 In the Matter of Marxism 13
Bill Maurer
2 Structuralism and Semiotics 29
Robert Layton
3 Phenomenology and Material Culture 43
Julian Thomas
4 Objectification 60
Christopher Tilley
5 Agency, Biography and Objects 74
Janet Hoskins
6 Scenes from a Troubled Engagement: Post-structuralism
and Material Culture Studies 85
BjornarOlsen
7 Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial
Theory in Colonial Situations 104
Peter van Dommelen

Part II The Body, Materiality and the Senses 125


Introduction by Patricia Spyer
8 Four Types of Visual Culture 131
Christopher Pinney
9 Food, Eating, and the Good Life 145
Judith Farquhar
vi CONTENTS

10 Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality


and Material Culture Theory 161
David Howes
11 The Colours of Things 173
Diana Young
12 Inside and Outside: Surfaces and Containers 186
Jean-Pierre Warnier

Part III Subjects and Objects 197


Introduction by Webb Keane
13 Cloth and Clothing 203
Jane Schneider
14 Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors 221
Robert St. George
15 Vernacular Architecture 230
Suzanne Preston Blier
16 Architecture and Modernism 254
Victor Buchli
17 'Primitivism', Anthropology, and the
Category of 'Primitive art' 267
Fred Myers
18 Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion 285
Robert J. Foster
19 Place and Landscape 303
Barbara Bender
20 Cultural Memory 315
Paul Connerton

Part IV Process and Transformation 325


Introduction by Susanne Küchler
21 Technology as Material Culture 329
Ron Eglash
22 Consumption 341
Daniel Miller
23 Style, Design, and Function 355
Margaret W. Conkey
CONTENTS vii

24 Exchange 373
James G. Carrier
25 Performance 384
Jon P. Mitchell
26 Present to Past: Ethnoarchaeology 402
Paul Lane
27 Material Culture and Long-term Change 425
Chris Gosden

Part V Presentation and Politics 443


Introduction by Mike Rowlands
28 Intellectual Property and Rights:
an Anthropological Perspective 447
Marilyn Strathern
29 Heritage and the Present Past 463
Beverley Butler
30 Museums and Museum Displays 480
Anthony Alan Shelton
31 Monuments and Memorials 500
Mike Rowlands and Christopher Tilley
32 Conservation as Material Culture 516
Diana Eastop
33 Collectors and Collecting 534
Russell Belk
Index 546

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