TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kannike, Anu
AU  - Laviolette, Patrick
AB  - This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable, and waste and technologies. The first section discusses the meanings of the lived environment on the individual and national levels. The second section provides specific examples on the role of things in identity construction. The third section focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of consumption and collecting. The phenomena under scrutiny in the fourth section are moral dilemmas associated with and representations of dirt/waste and advancements in science and technology. Presenting diverse case studies of material culture, the volume points to rich interdisciplinary approaches in cultural theory.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_463505
ID  - OAPEN ID: 463505
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030814577
ID  - OAPEN ID: 2228-060X (print);2228-4117 (online);2228-411
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33501
KW  - material culture
KW  - technologies
KW  - consumption
KW  - collecting
KW  - waste
KW  - home
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33501/1/463505.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33501/1/463505.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33501/1/463505.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36329
PB  - University of Tartu Press
PP  - Tartu
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9789949323951
TI  - Things in Culture, Culture in Thingsnull
ER  - 
