ISBN:
9781472592637
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (337 p)
Series Statement:
Criminal Practice Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Social Life of Materials : Studies in Materials and Society
DDC:
620.1
Keywords:
Material culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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. Human societies hav
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface: Materials transformations; Why conduct ethnographic studies of materials and society?; What disciplinary approaches are there to materials?; What anthropological approaches to materials are there?; What terms and terminologies can be used?; The book; Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 To live in a materials world; Imagining a materials world; Materials libraries and the materials world; The study of materials and society; Raw no more: The social study of materials
Description / Table of Contents:
Beyond 'things': Reimagining stuffPart 2 On materials innovation; Chapter 2 What's in a plant leaf? a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand; Materials, innovation and anthropology; Harakeke and manufacturing industry in New Zealand; Clean, Green harakeke; Harakeke oil extraction and environmental branding; Concluding comments; Reports; Chapter 3 Pharmaceutical matters: The invention of informed materials; Chemistry; Invention; Informed materials; Drug discovery; Conclusions: Chemical invention
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4 Toward designing new sensoaesthetic materials: The role of materials librariesThe development of materials science; Psychophysical properties; The role of materials libraries; Conclusions; Materials libraries and resources; Chapter 5 The science of sensory evaluation: An ethnographic critique; The senses in everyday life; The sensory home; The interplay of the senses; 'Sensory experience is social experience'; The plasticity of the material world; Part 3 From substance to form; Chapter 6 Wild silk indigo wrappers of Dogon of Mali: An ethnography of materials efficacy and design
Description / Table of Contents:
Material efficacy and transformationSheen in the natural and material world; The sheen of wild silk: The Dogon concept of Daoula; Inside the sheen: The material properties of wild silk yarns; Textile shaping through indigo dyeing: The Dogon concept of sara; Indigofera's sangah: Material properties and the dyeing process; The social implications and significance of materials; Social visibility and value through self-display; Materials classification and their cultural representations; Towards a micro-cosmology of indigenous materials; Chapter 7 Fashioning plastic; Ubiquitous plasticity
Description / Table of Contents:
Plastic materialsDesign history and plastic authenticity; Cultural plasticity; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Dressing God: Clothing as material of religious subjectivity in a Hindu group; The body as religious material; Darshan in the Mayapur temple; Making and materializing devotional attitudes; Conclusion: Clothing as entry into devotion; Part 4 The subversion of form by substance; Chapter 9 Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined gold: An attempt to reconfigure the social identity of a substance; Fairtrade and Fairmined gold: From beginning to end; Researching Fairtrade gold; Using complexity
Description / Table of Contents:
Unpacking the complexity of gold
Note:
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