Cultural histories of the material world / edited by Peter N. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Peter N., 1964-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays from leading figures in numerous fields exploring the ways human beings have perceived, shaped, and interpreted the material world.

Contents:

Introduction : The culture of the hand / Peter N. Miller

Design history and the decorative arts / Glenn Adamson

The materiality of art / Philippe Bordes

Mutually contextual : materials, bodies and objects / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak

Musuem display, an Algonquian bow, and the ship of Theseus / Ivan Gaskell

Cultural histories of the material world : whose material world? / Sabine MacCormack

The history of Facebook / Daniel Miller

Dirty, pretty things : on archaeology and prehistoric materialities / Lynn Meskell

Archaeology and design history : a thesis and nine theses / Michael Shanks

Swelling toads, translation, and the paradox of the concrete / Bernard L. Herman

Materiality and cultural translation : indigenous arts, colonial exchange, and postcolonial perspectives / Ruth B. Phillips

The antiquarian, the collector, and the cultural history of the material world / Alain Schnapp

Mountain as material : landscape inscriptions in China / Robert E. Harrist, Jr.

Objects and history / Jaâs Elsner

Beyond representation : things, human and nonhuman / Ittai Weinryb

Materialities of culture / Bill Brown

Toward a cultural history of the material world / Juliet Fleming

Thoughts on cultural histories of the material world / Nancy J. Troy

The history of science as a cultural history of the material world / Pamela H. Smith

Reflecting on recipes / Deborah L. Krohn

Music in the material world : cultural traces and historical cases / Elaine Sisman

A cultural history of the material world of Islam / Jonathan M. Bloom

Franz Kugler and the concept of world art history / Horst Bredekamp

The missing link : "antiquarianism," "material culture," and "cultural science" in the work of G.F. Klemm / Peter N. Miller.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472029358

0472029355

OCLC:

856934727