Material Meanings
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Material Meanings
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Author : Matthew S. Witkovsky
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Material Meanings written by Matthew S. Witkovsky and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Art categories.
Featuring highlights from Constance R. Caplan's noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art, this publication considers artworks from different media as material objects.
Material Meanings
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Author : Elizabeth S. Chilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Material Meanings written by Elizabeth S. Chilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Ceramics categories.
Material Meanings examines current approaches to material culture in the archaeological record from three perspectives: ethnoarchaeology and technological traditions, materials science, and theoretical approaches to materiality. Its focus is not on artifacts themselves but on the social contexts in which they are produced and given meaning, the choices made by an artifact producer within a larger technical system, and the interpretation of artifacts by modern researchers.
The Meanings Of Things
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Author : I. Hodder
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-12
The Meanings Of Things written by I. Hodder and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Social Science categories.
This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western Europe, provide a rich variety of views and experience in a worldwide perspective. Several of the authors focus on essential points of principle and methodology that must be carefully considered before any particular approach to material culture is adopted. One of the many fundamental questions posed in the book is whether or not all material culture is equivalent to documents which can be 'read' and interpreted by the outside observer. If it is, what is the nature of the 'messages' or meanings conveyed in this way? The book also questions the extent to which acceptance, and subsequent diffusion, of a religious belief or symbol may be qualified by the status of the individuals concerned in transmitting the innovation, as well as by the stratification of the society involved. Several authors deal with 'works of art' and the most effective means of reaching an understanding of their past significance. In some chapters semiotics is seen as the most appropriate technique to apply to the decoding of the assumed rules and grammars of material culture expression.
Technological Choices And Material Meanings In Early And Middle Bronze Age Hungary
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Author : Attila Kreiter
language : en
Publisher: BAR International Series
Release Date : 2007
Technological Choices And Material Meanings In Early And Middle Bronze Age Hungary written by Attila Kreiter and has been published by BAR International Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
This study examines the relationship between technology and social organisation in a range of Early and Middle Bronze Age cultural groups and proposes that in the process of material culture production, technological choices not only deliver an end product but are also an essential part of complex, dynamic social strategies.
The Archaeology Of Contextual Meanings
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Author : Ian Hodder
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-08-06
The Archaeology Of Contextual Meanings written by Ian Hodder and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-08-06 with Social Science categories.
This companion volume to Archaeology as Long-term History focuses on the symbolism of artefacts. It seeks at once to refine the theory and method relating to interpretation and show, with examples, how to conduct this sort of archaeological work. Some contributors work with the material culture of modern times or the historic period, areas in which the symbolism of mute artefacts has traditionally been thought most accessible. However, the book also contains a good number of applications in prehistory to demonstrate the feasibility of symbolic interpretation where good contextual data survive from the distant past. In relation to wider debates within the social sciences, the volume is characterised by a concern to place abstract symbolic codes within their historical context and within the contexts of social actions. In this respect, it develops further some of the ideas presented in Dr Hodder's Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, an earlier volume in this series.
Material Cultures 1740 920
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Author : Alla Myzelev
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Material Cultures 1740 920 written by Alla Myzelev and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
Interweaving notions of identity and subjectivity, spatial contexts, materiality and meaning, this collection makes a significant contribution to debates around the status and interpretation of visual and material culture. Material Cultures, 1740-1920 has four primary theoretical and historiographic lines of inquiry. The first is how concepts of otherness and difference inform, imbricate, and impose themselves on identity and the modes of acquisition as well as the objects themselves. The second concern explores the intricacies of how objects and their subjects negotiate and represent spatial narratives. The third thread attempts to unravel the ideological underpinnings of collections of individuals which inevitably and invariably rub up against the social, the institutional, and the political. Finally, at the heart of Material Cultures, 1740-1920 is an intervention moving beyond the disciplinary ethos of material culture to argue more firmly for the aesthetic, visual, and semiotic potency inseparable from any understanding of material objects integral to the lives of their collecting subjects. The collection argues that objects are semiotic conduits or signs of meanings, pleasures, and desires that are deeply subjective; more often than not, they reveal racial, gendered, and sexual identities. As the volume demonstrates through its various case studies, material and visual cultures are not as separate as our current disciplinary ethos would lead us to believe.
Economic Justice
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Author : Kenneth Kipnis
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1985
Economic Justice written by Kenneth Kipnis and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Business & Economics categories.
Twenty distinguished philosophers and social theorists have contributed original papers to this stimulating investigation into the nature of the economically just society. Collectively, and in a remarkably coherent fashion, these papers set out the problems of contemporary social theory within the context of the distributive justice vs. property rights debate initiated by the works of John Rawls and Robert Nozick.
Meanings Of The Market
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Author : James G. Carrier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-28
Meanings Of The Market written by James G. Carrier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-28 with Social Science categories.
For almost twenty years, the 'Free Market' has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples' lives. Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how it is being used. This book helps correct that state of affairs. Focusing on the United States, where the Market model is strongest, authors analyze portrayals of the Market, its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. They also describe extensions and practical applications of the Market model in policy-making in the United States and in explaining how firms work, show its political strengths and conceptual limitations. In bringing rigor and sustained critical analysis to a topic of growing global significance, this truly interdisciplinary study represents a coherent and incisive contribution to anthropology, sociology, politics, history and economics, as it challenges these disciplines to come to grips with one of the most potent cultural symbols of postmodernity.
Going Underground The Meanings Of Death And Burial For Minority Groups In Israel
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Author : Talia Shay
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Going Underground The Meanings Of Death And Burial For Minority Groups In Israel written by Talia Shay and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with Social Science categories.
This volume is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on the attitudes of several minority groups living in Israel today, including four communities of Russian Jews, an ultra-religious Jewish community and a Palestinian-Christian community.
Materials Experience
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Author : Paul Hekkert
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Release Date : 2013-10-24
Materials Experience written by Paul Hekkert and has been published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-24 with Technology & Engineering categories.
If you aim to design a particular user experience, the material properties of the object may play a decisive role in being successful. Would the lightweight car door give you the proper impression of a luxury car? And does a perfectly polished doorknob feel natural? Maybe not. Materials can feel artificial, sound reliable, and (can make a product) look ‘cool’, they can be just pleasant to touch or look at, and cause us to experience disgust, admiration or surprise. In this chapter, we will look into these various ways in which materials can be experienced, ranging from the meanings we attribute to them, the aesthetic pleasure we obtain from perceiving them, and the emotions they may evoke in the context of a designed object. The goal of designing an intended (material) experience must be grounded in an understanding of the processes that underlie people’s material experiences more generally.