| Handbook of Material Culture Contributor(s): Tilley, Christopher (Editor), Keane, Webb (Editor), Kuechler-Fogden, Susanne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1446270564 ISBN-13: 9781446270561 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $60.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.46 |
| LCCN: 2020300943 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.8" W x 9.6" (2.20 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. This cutting-edge work examines the current state of material culture as well as how this field of study may be extended and developed in the future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rowlands, Mike: - Professor Michael Rowlands teaches cultural heritage and museum anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University College, London. His research interests include the theorisation and conceptualisation of cultural heritage, material culture studies and cultural property in relation to long term social and cultural change. He has conducted fieldwork research in West Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia) to investigate negotiations of material culture, heritage and museums. He currently coordinates a cultural heritage research project between China and Europe funded by the EU and works in partnership with the National Taiwan University on the revitalisation of indigenous cultural knowledge. His research also focuses on post-conflict recovery through the Global Post-Conflict Recovery Network. In 1973 he was awarded a PhD in Anthropology by University College London.Tilley, Christopher: - He has written a number of books on archaeological theory exploring the relations between hermeneutic, structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives and material culture. |