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- Cultural Histories of the Material World
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histor
summary
All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different fields—from Art History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Folklore, History, History of Science, Literature, Philosophy—to offer their vision of what cultural history of the material world looks like and attempt to show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means. The result is a spectacular kaleidoscope of future possibilities and new perspectives.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Quote
- pp. iii-vii
- Series Editor’s Preface
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Part 1. Art’s Challenge
- Chapter Two – The Materiality of Art
- pp. 39-44
- Part 2. The Place of the Material
- Part 3. Experience and Material
- Chapter Thirteen – Objects and History
- pp. 165-171
- Part 4. Future Histories
- Chapter Nineteen – Reflecting on Recipes
- pp. 226-232
- Contributors
- pp. 283-289
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472029358
Related ISBN(s)
9780472118915
MARC Record
OCLC
856934727
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No