ISBN:
9781611329049
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (273 p)
Ausgabe:
2nd ed
Paralleltitel:
Print version Berger, Arthur Asa What Objects Mean, Second Edition : An Introduction to Material Culture
DDC:
306.4/6
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Material Culture -- Chapter 1: Making Sense of Material Culture -- Defining Material Culture -- The Blue Carbuncle as a Model for the Study of Material Culture -- On the Nature of Theory -- Nietzsche and Perspectivism -- The Rashomon Problem -- Chapter 2: A Freudian Psychoanalytic Approach -- Artifacts and the Unconscious: Freud's Topographic Hypothesis -- Id, Ego and Superego: Freud's Structural Hypothesis -- Symbolic Aspects of Material Culture
Kurzfassung:
Sexual Development and Material Culture -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Semiotic Approaches to Material Culture -- Saussure on Signs -- Problems with Interpreting Signs -- Peirce on Signs -- Roland Barthes on the Semiotics of Objects -- On the Veracity of Signs -- Denotation and Connotation -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Sociological Analysis of Material Culture -- Sociological Theory -- Functionalism -- Taste Cultures -- Uses and Gratifications Provided by Artifacts -- Race, Ethnicity, and Gender -- Status -- Role -- Jean Baudrillard on The System of Objects -- Conclusions
Kurzfassung:
Chapter 5: Economic Theory, Marxism, and Material Culture -- Needs Versus Desires: Traveling Light and Arriving Heavy -- Marxist Theory and Alienation -- Class Conflict -- The Role of Advertising -- Thorsten Veblen and Conspicuous Consumption -- Max Weber and Calvinist-Protestant Thought -- Georg Simmel on Fashion -- Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Authenticity and Postmodern Thought -- John Berger on Objects and Advertising -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Cultural Theory and Material Culture -- Culture -- Clotaire Rapaille and Culture Codes
Kurzfassung:
Mary Douglas and Grid-Group Theory -- Myth and Material Culture -- The Myth Model and Material Culture -- Mark Gottdiener on Cultural Studies -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7: Archaeological Theory and Material Culture -- The Cultural History and Anthropological Archaeology Approaches -- Processual Theory -- Post-Processual Theory -- Archaeology's Contribution to Material Culture Theory -- Conclusions -- Part II: Applications -- Chapter 8: Exchange -- Chapter 9: Style -- Chapter 10: Technology -- Chapter 11: Globalization -- Chapter 12: Identity -- Chapter 13: Transformations
Kurzfassung:
Chapter 14: Sociability -- Chapter 15: Shape -- Chapter 16: Diffusion -- Chapter 17: Narratives -- Chapter 18: Nationalism -- Part III: Material Culture Games -- The Artifacts Inventory Game -- The Time Capsule Game -- Disciplinary Perspectives on Objects -- The Grid-Group Theory and Objects Game -- The Objects and Personal Identity Game -- The Signifying Objects Game -- Disciplinary Writing Exercise -- The Analyzing Artifact Advertisements Game -- The Id/Ego/Superego Objects Game -- The Functions of Objects Game -- The Myth Model Game -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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