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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." 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.
Material Culture and Long-Term Change
Material Culture and Long-Term Change
Long-term change, unfolding over decades, centuries or millennia, is hard to grasp or conceive of, existing as it does at a scale beyond that of the human life span. However, I shall argue here that cultural and material forms existing over long spans of time form a channelling for human being that helps orient and shape short-term processes and events. Looking at our lives at the biographical scale of the individual human life, we can see that each of us lives by sets of skills of making and discrimination which we learn in the course of our lives, with crucial learning taking place in childhood. How we make and use things in a manner which is ...
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