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Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture
Author(s): Paul Graves-Brown
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 11 May 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415167043
- ISBN-13: 9780415167048
Book Description
Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including:
* why do Berliners have such strange door keys?
* should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved?
* could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket
* why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Graves-Brown … offers a unique approach to the assessment of contemporary material culture, combining methodological and theoretical paradigms drawn from archeology, philosophy, and psychology. … Provocative and thoughtful….”
-Choice, May 2001
-Choice, May 2001
About the Author
P.M. Graves-Brown studied Archaeology and Prehistory at Sheffield University and gained his PhD in archaeology at Southampton University. He currently works as an archaeological curator in South Wales. He has published a wider variety of work, mainly on human origins and modern material culture.
