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Title The social life of materials : studies in materials and society / edited by Adam Drazin and Susanne Küchler.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Subject Materials science -- Social life and customs.
Materials science.
Manners and customs.
Materials science -- Study and teaching.
Materials science -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Drazin, Adam, editor.
Küchler, Susanne, editor.
ISBN 9781472592651 (electronic book)
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