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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.
Food, Eating, and the Good Life
Food, Eating, and the Good Life
Consider the cookbook.1 Meant for use, its modern form of writing combines the list and the procedure. Ingredients and instructions, things and actions for the cook, cooperate in the making of food. Once made, food eaten and food given to others to eat are essential to the construction of human collective life. Cookbooks may seem to be an archive of shared knowledge, but the usefulness of cookbooks in guiding the (re)production of life actually depends on a body of tacit knowledge held by only some readers: the difference between creaming and mixing, the point at which milk is scalded (but not boiled), the yellow color of sautéed onions – these kinds of knowledge are ...
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