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Author |
: Chris Scarre |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2006-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139447720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139447726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ethics of Archaeology by : Chris Scarre
The question of ethics and their role in archaeology has stimulated one of the discipline's liveliest debates. In this collection of essays, first published in 2006, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists and philosophers explore the ethical issues archaeology needs to address. Marrying the skills and expertise of practitioners from different disciplines, the collection produces interesting insights into many of the ethical dilemmas facing archaeology today. Topics discussed include relations with indigenous peoples; the professional standards and responsibilities of researchers; the role of ethical codes; the notion of value in archaeology; concepts of stewardship and custodianship; the meaning and moral implications of 'heritage'; the question of who 'owns' the past or the interpretation of it; the trade in antiquities; the repatriation of skeletal material; and treatment of the dead. This important collection is essential reading for all those working in the field of archaeology, be they scholar or practitioner.
Author |
: Thomas Richards |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804719012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804719018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Commodity Culture of Victorian England by : Thomas Richards
This provocative and theoretically sophisticated book reveals how capitalism produced and sustained a culture of its own in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "Richards provides a valuable account of the interaction between cultural and business development in Victorian England by focusing on the evolution of advertising. Through an examination of five case studies, ranging from how advertisers employed images of the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to their use of images of women just before WWI, he argues that the British developed a new type of culture in the mid and late-19th century--a new way of thinking and living increasingly based upon the possession of material goods, commodities. Revising the findings of some earlier scholars, Richards shows that 'cultural forms of consumerism . . . came into being well before the consumer economy did.' The 50 well-reproduced advertising images greatly enhance the value of this study." --M. Blackford, "Choice"
Author |
: Supriya Chaudhuri |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1138214736 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781138214736 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World by : Supriya Chaudhuri
Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851-1914. It also demonstrates methodologies and theoretical approaches from this field of study, and puts these into practise in the case studies presented.
Author |
: Andrew Bevan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2016-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315430881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315430886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultures of Commodity Branding by : Andrew Bevan
The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving, ritual, and sacrifice.
Author |
: Kevin Hetherington |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2011-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135953843 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135953848 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capitalism's Eye by : Kevin Hetherington
Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War. Looking at the department stores, home life, and the great exhibitions around the turn of the last century, Capitalism's Eye promises to transform how we understand both the cultural history of capitalism in America and Europe and the historical roots of the mediated spectacle that dominates our world today.
Author |
: Arjun Appadurai |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 1988-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107392977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107392977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Life of Things by : Arjun Appadurai
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists, archaeologists, and historians of art.
Author |
: Roopali Mukherjee |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2012-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814764008 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814764002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Commodity Activism by : Roopali Mukherjee
Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary culture: the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser have gathered an exemplary group of scholars to explore this new landscape through a series of case studies of “commodity activism.” Drawing from television, film, consumer activist campaigns, and cultures of celebrity and corporate patronage, the essays take up examples such as the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign, sex positive retail activism, ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover, and Angelina Jolie as multinational celebrity missionary. Exploring the complexities embedded in contemporary political activism, Commodity Activism reveals the workings of power and resistance as well as citizenship and subjectivity in the neoliberal era. Refusing to simply position politics in opposition to consumerism, this collection teases out the relationships between material cultures and political subjectivities, arguing that activism may itself be transforming into a branded commodity.
Author |
: Ruth B. Phillips |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 1999-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520207971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520207974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unpacking Culture by : Ruth B. Phillips
"An outstanding set of studies that work well with each other to produce truly substantial and rich insights into the making and consuming of art in the colonial and post-colonial world."—Susan S. Bean, Curator, Peabody Essex Museum
Author |
: George Paul Meiu |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2020-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253047960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 025304796X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation by : George Paul Meiu
In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism; in the USA, Native American groupings have expanded their involvement in gaming, design, and other industries; and all over the world, the commodification of culture has sown itself deeply into the domains of everything from medicine to fashion. Ethnic groups increasingly seek empowerment by formally incorporating themselves, by deploying their sovereign status for material ends, and by copyrighting their cultural practices as intellectual property. Building on ethnographic case studies from Kenya, Nepal, Peru, Russia, and many other countries, this collection poses the question: Does the turn to the incorporation and commodification of ethnicity really herald a new historical moment in the global politics of identity?
Author |
: Supriya Chaudhuri |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2017-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351620000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351620002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World by : Supriya Chaudhuri
Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851–1914. By focusing on episodes in the social and cultural lives of commodities, it explores some of the ways in which commodities shaped the colonial cultures of global modernity. Chapters by experts in the field examine the production, circulation, display and representation of commodities in various regional and national contexts, and draw on a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches. An integrated, coherent and urgent response to a number of key debates in postcolonial and Victorian studies, world literature and imperial history, this book will be of interest to researchers with interests in migration, commodity culture, colonial history and transnational networks of print and ideas.