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The social life of materials :

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1472592638

(Number (ISBN

1472592646

(Number (ISBN

9781472592637

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9781472592644

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9781472592651

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9781472592668

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b431376

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The social life of materials :

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[Book]

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studies in materials and society /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Adam Drazin and Susanne Kueüchler.

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xxviii, 301 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Part 1. Introduction. 1. To live in a materials world / Adam Drazin -- Part 2. On materials innovation. 2. What's in a plant leaf? : a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand / Graeme Were ; 3. Pharmaceutical matters : The invention of informed materials / Andrew Barry ; 4. Toward designing new sensoaesthetic materials : The role of materials libraries / Mark A. Miodownik ; 5. The science of sensory evaluation : An ethnographic critique / David Howes -- Part 3. From substance to form. 6. Wild silk indigo wrappers of Dogon of Mali : An ethnography of materials efficacy and design / Laurence Douny ; 7. Fashioning plastic / Tom Fisher ; 8. Dressing God : Clothing as material of religious subjectivity in a Hindu group / Urmila Mohan -- Part 4. The subversion of form by substance. 9. Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined gold : An attempt to reconfigure the social identity of a substance / Peter Oakley ; 10. Subversive plasticity : Materials' histories and cultural categories in the Philippines / Deirdre McKay, with Padmapani Perez, Ruel Bimuyag and Raja Shanti Bonnevie ; 11. Diamonds, machines and colours : Moving materials in ritual exchange / Filipe Calvão -- Part 5. Ecologies of materials' social lives. 12. Sustainability and the co-constitution of substances and subjects / Sarah Wilkes ; 13. The peony and the rose : Social change and fragrance marketing in China's bath market / Chan Chow Wah ; 14. The woollen blanket and its imagined values : Material transformations of woollen blankets in contemporary art / Fiona P. McDonald -- Part 6. Conclusion. 15. Materials : the story of use / Susanne Küchler.

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Text of Note

Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as 'social' yet the materials which comprise them are considered 'raw' or natural'. The Social Life of Materials proposes a new perspective in this interdisciplinary field. Diverting attention from the consumption of objects, the book looks towards the properties of materials and how these exist through many transformations in a variety of cultural contexts. Bringing together ethnographic studies of cultures from around the world, this collection explores the significance of materials by moving beyond questions of what may be created from them. Instead, the text argues that the materials themselves represent a shifting ground around which relationships, identities and powers are constantly formed and dissolved in the act of making and remaking.

Material culture, Cross-cultural studies.

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Drazin, Adam

Küchler, Susanne

Date of Transaction

20190221140302.0

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[Book]

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