Materiality and society / Tim Dant.

By:

Dant, Tim

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2004.Description: 180 pISBN:

9780335208562 (hbk.) :
9780335208555 (pbk.) :
033520855X (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.3 DAN

LOC classification:

HC79.C6

Incomplete contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	306.3 DAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		201384

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Includes bibliographical references (p.[155]-164) and index.

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.