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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.
Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations
Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations
Definitions of major theoretical perspectives are, even at the best of times, always going to be as much slippery and vague as wrapped in controversy and attempts to pinpoint what postcolonial theory is about or what it tries to achieve usually do not fare much better. If anything, postcolonialism defies any such effort right from the start, as there is widespread debate about the very term that can or should be used to refer to the body of concepts and tenets that have by and large become grouped together under the banner of ‘postcolonial theory’.
Disagreement erupts from the outset when writing out the very term ‘postcolonial’: ...
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