Material culture in the social world : values, activities, lifestyles / Tim Dant.
Material type: TextPublication details: Buckingham : Open University Press, 1999.Description: [ix], 227p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780335198221 (hbk.) :
- 9780335198214 (pbk.) :
- 033519821X (pbk.)
- 306 DAN
- GN406 .D36 1999
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 306 DAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 119049 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
Bibliography.
Includes index.
The cairn and the mini-strip Consuming or living with things? Fetishism and the social value of objects Building and dwelling Wearing it out written and material clothing Playing with things interacting with a windsurfer Objects in time modernity and biography Turn it on objects that mediate Who's what? people as objects
We interact with objects in our everyday lives in a way which is connected to the way we relate to other people and the culture of the particular society we live in - they are social relations.