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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 Colours of Things
The Colours of Things
This chapter addresses the materiality of colours. In using the term materiality to designate colour I refer to the material stuff of colour, coloured cloth, coloured paper, coloured paints, coloured food etc. I will argue that colour is a crucial but little analysed part of understanding how material things can constitute social relations. Here, in emphasising their materiality I will consider what it is that colours can do, something which has been neglected even in material culture theory, as it has been in every other branch of anthropology. It is as much for what they do, as well as for what they can mean, that colours are so useful and worth attending to both in images and in ...
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