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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.
The Body, Materiality and the Senses
How is a place sensed? Are the limits of my language the limits of my world? What sort of agency can be ascribed to food or colour? Should the visual be seen as a primary mode of communication, relatively free of language? Can anthropology expand on the pleasures of eating while acknowledging its relationship to privation, inequality and exploitation? In what ways are color relationships used to animate things and produce a sense of movement? Does moving as part of a crowd in New York, Rome or Shanghai, or alone in dwellings of different architectural orderings, constitute the same kind of experience? How do the micro-technologies of the self tacit in material practices of, ...
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