Handbook of Material Culture

1949,-

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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.</p><p>The Handbook of Material Culture is divided into five sections.</p><p></p><p>¿ Section I maps material culture studies as a theoretical and conceptual field. </p><p>¿ Section II examines the relationship between material forms, the human body and the senses. </p><p>¿ Section III focuses on subject-object relations. </p><p>¿ Section IV considers things in terms of processes and transformations in terms o