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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.
Introduction
Introduction
Studies of material culture have undergone a profound transformation during the past twenty years and are now among the most dynamic and wide-ranging areas of contemporary scholarship in the human sciences. This is reflected in an impressive volume of research activity, and a flood of books, edited collections, review articles and papers devoted to this field. An international journal, the Journal of Material Culture, first published in 1996, reaches an audience of archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and people working in cultural, design and technological studies. Although questions of materiality pervade a wide range of disciplines in the social and human sciences, no single academic discipline unifies the various approaches to material culture and gives them an institutional identity. One consequence is that questions ...
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