Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. Emerging from the pioneering work done at University College London, this reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study of material culture. With topics ranging from the anthropology of art to architecture, landscape studies, archaeology, consum...(展开全部)

The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research on sound thrives across disciplines such as music, anthropology, geography, sociology and cultural studies as well as within the new interdisciplinary spher...(展开全部)

'The Smell Culture Reader' is a must read ... it will help you understand, and perhaps better enjoy, the smelly world around you.' Anya's Garden of Natural Perfumery website 'Scholarly and profound, the anthology is a must-read for the professional. Anyone engaged in the science, creation, manufacture, sales or study of aroma and fragrance will find it an invaluable source of i...(展开全部)

Sight and sound are equally crucial to our understanding of the world, yet the visual has dominated discussions of cultural experience. The very way we relate to, and think about, our everyday world has been influenced by this emphasis on sight over sound. Providing a definitive overview of an emerging field, this pioneering reader is the first to redress a glaring imbalance by...(展开全部)

Sight and sound are equally crucial to our understanding of the world, yet the visual has dominated discussions of cultural experience. The very way we relate to, and think about, our everyday world has been influenced by this emphasis on sight over sound. Providing a definitive overview of an emerging field, this pioneering reader is the first to redress a glaring imbalance by...(展开全部)

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Visual Culture Reader brings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual culture st...(展开全部)

Noted scholar Henry Glassie (Passing the Time in Ballymenone, Turkish Traditional Art Today), directs his attention to reinventing and reinvigorating thistory and art through the study of material culture. As Glassie puts it, "The concept of culture seems a secure achievements. In the future, history and art, as well as science and philosophy, will be understood to be, like cul...(展开全部)

Summary Focusing on the material as culture from newer perspectives applied to contemporary consumption, Woodward (cultural sociology, Griffith U., Australia) surveys diverse approaches (e.g., sociological, psychological, marketing, cross-disciplinary) to studying people-object relations as a lens on the values of modern consumer society. Case studies (e.g., of homes, objects i...(展开全部)

'This should become a core text for second year courses in sociology and cultural studies...it synthesizes a vast body of literature and a complex range of debates into a text which is at once accessible, engaging and stimulating...it will lead to students seeing and thinking about the material world in a totally new light and can be used as a way into key theoretical debates' ...(展开全部)

Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, art history, literary studies and anthropology, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The role of museums, the impact of the digital age and...(展开全部)