Understanding material culture / Ian Woodward.
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Los Angeles ; London :
Sage Publications,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Locating material culture
- 1. The material as culture : definitions, perspectives, approaches
- 2. Studying material culture : origins and premises
- Pt. II. Theoretical approaches to studying material culture
- 3. The deceptive, suspicious object : Marxist and critical approaches
- 4. The object as symbolic code : structural and semiotic approaches
- 5. The material representing the cultural universe : objects, symbols and cultural categories
- Pt. III. Objects in action
- 6. Objects and distinction : the aesthetic field and expressive materiality
- 7. Material culture and identity : objects and the self
- 8. Material culture, narratives and social performance : objects in contexts
- Pt. IV. Conclusion
- 9. Conclusion : objects and meaning in consumer culture.
