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The social life of materials : studies in materials and society /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Drazin, Adam (Editor ), Küchler, Susanne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.