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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
pt. II. On Materials Innovation. 2. What's in a Plant Leaf? A Case Study of Materials Innovation in New Zealand / Graeme Were -- 3. Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials / Andrew Barry -- 4. Towards Designing New Sensoaesthetic Materials: The Role of Materials Libraries / Mark Miodownik -- 5. The Science of Sensory Evaluation: An Ethnographic Critique / David Howes. |
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pt. III. From Substance to Form. 6. Wild Silk Indigo Wrappers of Dogon of Mali: An Ethnography of Materials Efficacy and Design / Laurence Douny -- 7. Fashioning Plastic: Changing Materials in Design / Tom Fisher -- 8. Dressing for God: Cloth as Material of Religious Subjectivity in a Hindu Group / Urmila Mohan. |
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pt. IV: The Subversion of Form by Substance. 9. Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold: An Attempt to Reconfigure the Social Identity of a Substance / Peter Oakley -- 10. Subversive Plasticity: Materials' Histories and Cultural Categories in the Philippines / Deirdre McKay -- 11. Diamonds, Machines and Colors: Moving Materials in Ritual Exchange / Filipe Calvao. |
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pt. V: Ecologies of Materials' Social Lives. 12. Sustainability and the Co-constitution of Substances and Subjects / Sarah Wilkes -- 13. The Peony and the Rose: Social Change and Fragrance Marketing in China's Bath Market / Chan Chow Wah -- 14. The Woollen Blanket and its Imagined Values: Material Transformations of Woollen Blankets in Contemporary ARt / Fiona P. McDonald. |
Summary |
"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"--Publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Materials science -- Social life and customs.
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Materials science. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Materials science -- Study and teaching.
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Materials science -- Study and teaching. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Drazin, Adam, editor.
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Küchler, Susanne, editor.
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ISBN |
9781472592651 (electronic book) |
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1472592654 (electronic book) |
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9781472592668 |
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1472592662 |
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9781472592637 |
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1472592638 |
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1472592646 |
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9781472592644 (paperback) |
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1472592646 |
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9781474249249 (online) |
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1474249248 |
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