Agency, Biography and Objects
Originally published in 2006 in . Sage Handbook of Material Culture,edited by Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler,Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer. pp. 74-84. London: Routledge.
The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the... more The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe. The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. It is cutting-edge: rather than simply reviewing the field as it currently exists. It also attempts to chart the future: the manner in which material culture studies may be extended and developed.
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