Materiality and society / Tim Dant.
Material type: TextPublication details: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2004.Description: 180 pISBN:- 9780335208562 (hbk.) :
- 9780335208555 (pbk.) :
- 033520855X (pbk.)
- 306.3 DAN
- HC79.C6
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 306.3 DAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 201384 |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[155]-164) and index.
1.The sociality of things -- 2.Material civilization -- 3.Technology and modernity -- 4.Agency, affordance and actor-networks --5.Being-wth materiality -- 6.Material interaction -- 7.Materiality and society.
This text provides a study of material culture - the interaction between people and things. Drawing on historical, philosophical and theoretical discourses, the text opens up new lines of enquiry in the study of materiality.