The Social Life Of Materials
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Author |
: Adam Drazin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2020-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000183146 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000183149 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Life of Materials by : Adam Drazin
Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as ‘social’ yet the materials which comprise them are considered ‘raw’ or natural’. The Social Life of Materials proposes a new perspective in this interdisciplinary field. Diverting attention from the consumption of objects, the book looks towards the properties of materials and how these exist through many transformations in a variety of cultural contexts.Human societies have always worked with materials. However, the customs and traditions surrounding this differ according to the place, the time and the material itself. Whether or not the material is man-made, materials are defined by social intervention. Today, these constitute one of the most exciting areas of global scientific research and innovation, harboring the potential to act as key vehicles of change in the world. But this ‘materials revolution’ has complex social implications. Smart materials are designed to anticipate our actions and needs, yet we are increasingly unable to apprehend the composite materials which comprise new products.Bringing together ethnographic studies of cultures from around the world, this collection explores the significance of materials by moving beyond questions of what may be created from them. Instead, the text argues that the materials themselves represent a shifting ground around which relationships, identities and powers are constantly formed and dissolved in the act of making and remaking.
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 |
: Judith A. Habicht-Mauche |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2022-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816551064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816551065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Life of Pots by : Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
The demographic upheavals that altered the social landscape of the Southwest from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries forced peoples from diverse backgrounds to literally remake their worlds—transformations in community, identity, and power that are only beginning to be understood through innovations in decorated ceramics. In addition to aesthetic changes that included new color schemes, new painting techniques, alterations in design, and a greater emphasis on iconographic imagery, some of the wares reflect a new production efficiency resulting from more specialized household and community-based industries. Also, they were traded over longer distances and were used more often in public ceremonies than earlier ceramic types. Through the study of glaze-painted pottery, archaeologists are beginning to understand that pots had “social lives” in this changing world and that careful reconstruction of the social lives of pots can help us understand the social lives of Puebloan peoples. In this book, fifteen contributors apply a wide range of technological and stylistic analysis techniques to pottery of the Rio Grande and Western Pueblo areas to show what it reveals about inter- and intra-community dynamics, work groups, migration, trade, and ideology in the precontact and early postcontact Puebloan world. The contributors report on research conducted throughout the glaze producing areas of the Southwest and cover the full historical range of glaze ware production. Utilizing a variety of techniques—continued typological analyses, optical petrography, instrumental neutron activation analysis, X-ray microprobe analysis, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy—they develop broader frameworks for examining the changing role of these ceramics in social dynamics. By tracing the circulation and exchange of specialized knowledge, raw materials, and the pots themselves via social networks of varying size, they show how glaze ware technology, production, exchange, and reflected a variety of dynamic historical and social processes. Through this material evidence, the contributors reveal that technological and aesthetic innovations were deliberately manipulated and disseminated to actively construct “communities of practice” that cut across language and settlement groups. The Social Life of Pots offers a wealth of new data from this crucial period of prehistory and is an important baseline for future work in this area. Contributors Patricia Capone Linda S. Cordell Suzanne L. Eckert Thomas R. Fenn Judith A. Habicht-Mauche Cynthia L Herhahn Maren Hopkins Deborah L. Huntley Toni S. Laumbach Kathryn Leonard Barbara J. Mills Kit Nelson Gregson Schachner Miriam T. Stark Scott Van Keuren
Author |
: Theodore R. Schatzki |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2019-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429626821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429626827 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Change in a Material World by : Theodore R. Schatzki
Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of significant differences in bundles of practices and material arrangements. Illustrated with examples from the history of bourbon distillation and the formation and evolution of digitally-mediated associations in contemporary life, the book argues that chains of activity combine with material events and processes to cause social changes. The book thereby stresses the significance of the material dimension of society for the constitution, determination, and explanation of social phenomena, as well as the types of space needed to understand them. The book also challenges the explanatory significance of such key phenomena as power, dependence, relations, mechanisms, and individual behavior. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, organization studies scholars, and others interested in social life and social change.
Author |
: William Hollingsworth Whyte |
Publisher |
: Ingram |
Total Pages |
: 125 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 097063241X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780970632418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by : William Hollingsworth Whyte
The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.
Author |
: Abigail Williams |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 2017-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300228106 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300228104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Life of Books by : Abigail Williams
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Author |
: Martin Davies |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2023-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000960204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100096020X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sociology of Social Work by : Martin Davies
How do sociologists explain the role and function of social work in society? How has sociological knowledge been used, adapted and misused by social workers? Originally published in 1991, The Sociology of Social Work includes chapters on sociological theory and social work, child protection, community care, probation interviews, family therapy, residential care, race, and knowledge and power.
Author |
: John Holland Rose |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1062 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000007455049 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Napoleon I, Including New Materials from the British Official Records by : John Holland Rose
Author |
: Joseph Lindsey Henderson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B95968 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Materials and Methods in the Middle Grades by : Joseph Lindsey Henderson
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858045044587 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kindergarten-primary Magazine by :