{"product_id":"handbook-of-material-culture-paperback","title":"Handbook of Material Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Tilley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWebb Keane\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSusanne Kuechler-Fogden\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cb\u003eHandbook of Material Culture\u003c\/b\u003e provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains, and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of \"things.\" This cutting-edge work examines the current state of material culture as well as how this field of study may be extended and developed in the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eHandbook of Material Culture\u003c\/b\u003e is divided into five sections: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection I maps material culture studies as a theoretical and conceptual field. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection II examines the relationship between material forms, the human body and the senses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection III focuses on subject-object relations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection 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. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eHandbook\u003c\/b\u003e charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has written a number of books on archaeological theory exploring the relations between hermeneutic, structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives and material culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Michael Rowlands teaches cultural heritage and museum anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University College, London. His research interests include the theorisation and conceptualisation of cultural heritage, material culture studies and cultural property in relation to long term social and cultural change. He has conducted fieldwork research in West Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia) to investigate negotiations of material culture, heritage and museums. He currently coordinates a cultural heritage research project between China and Europe funded by the EU and works in partnership with the National Taiwan University on the revitalisation of indigenous cultural knowledge. His research also focuses on post-conflict recovery through the Global Post-Conflict Recovery Network. In 1973 he was awarded a PhD in Anthropology by University College London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.6 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666081964076,"sku":"9781446270561","price":118.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0954\/5772\/files\/AiDkaqUSFH9781446270561.webp?v=1781622186","url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/handbook-of-material-culture-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}