Authors:Susanne Kuchler, Daniel Miller,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: culture, material, clothing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06-04
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1845200675
ISBN-13: 9781845200671
In recent years, there has been a spate of books theorizing fashion. Few, however, take on board the artefactual nature of cloth. In contrast, costume historians have looked closely at garments, but have shown less concern with how clothing is informed by social structures. This book fills a major gap by combining these two "camps" through an expressly material culture approach to clothing. In sustained case studies, Küchler and Miller argue that cloth and clothing are living, vibrant parts of culture and the body. From the recycling of cloth in Africa and India and the use of pattern in the
Author: Carol Baldwin
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: express, freestyle, matters, material, metals
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $31.43
ISBN-10: 1410916723
ISBN-13: 9781410916723
Metals are a huge group of materials. This book tells you everything you need to know about them. There are loads of photos and facts. This will help you to get to grips with the topic and find answers quickly. Includes exiting photos, bite-sized chunks
Author: Karen M. Gerhart
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: japan, medieval, death, culture, material
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 2009-07
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0824832612
ISBN-13: 9780824832612
This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of powerlessness over death. By attending to both religious practice and ritual objects used in funerals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it seeks to provide a new understanding of the relationship between the two. Karen Gerhart looks at how these special objects and rituals functioned by analyzing case studies culled from written records, diaries, and illustrated handscrolls, and by examining surviving funerary structures and painted and sculpted images. The work is d
Author: Michel Henry
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: philosophy, continental, perspectives, phenomenology, material
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0823229440
ISBN-13: 9780823229444
This book is Michel Henry’s most sustained investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian phenomenology in the direction of Idealism. Returning to the materiality of life, Henry’s material phenomenology situates central phenomenological themes- intentionality, temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity - within the full concreteness of life. One of the most accessible of Henry’s books, Material Phenomenology is essential reading for those interested in the fu
Author: Angela Royston
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: detectives, material, bat, baseball, wood
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $6.49
ISBN-10: 1403476810
ISBN-13: 9781403476814
What does the bat look like? The bat is long and round. It is easy to hold. What material is the bat made of?
Author: Christopher Tilley
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: archaeology, social, culture, material, metaphor
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-04-17
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 0631192034
ISBN-13: 9780631192039
This book provides an innovative contribution to debates about the use of metaphor in the social sciences written by one of today’s foremost archaeological theorists.
Author: Carol Baldwin
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: express, freestyle, matters, material, metals
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 1410916790
ISBN-13: 9781410916792
This book tells you everything you need to know about the huge group of materials known as metals. There are loads of photos and facts to help you fully understand the topic and find answers quickly. You don’t have to be a professor to understand this sc
