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'.
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'.
Adam Drazin lectures in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK, where he coordinates the MA in Materials, Anthropology and Design. Susanne Küchler is Professor in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
PrefacePart I: Introduction1. To Live in a Materials WorldAdam Drazin University College London UKPart II: On Materials Innovation2. What's in a Plant Leaf? A Case Study of Materials Innovation in New ZealandGraeme Were University of Queensland Australia3. Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials Andrew Barry Oxford University UK4. Towards Designing New Sensoaesthetic Materials: The Role of Materials LibrariesMark Miodownik University College London UK5. The Science of Sensory Evaluation: An Ethnographic CritiqueDavid Howes Concordia University CanadaPart III: From Substance to Form6. Wild Silk Indigo Wrappers of Dogon of Mali: An Ethnography of Materials Efficacy and DesignLaurence Douny University College London UK7. Fashioning Plastic: Changing Materials in DesignTom Fisher University of Nottingham UK8. Dressing for God: Cloth as Material of Religious Subjectivity in a Hindu Group Urmila Mohan University College London UKPart IV: The Subversion of Form by Substance9. Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold: An Attempt to Reconfigure the Social Identity of a SubstancePeter Oakley Royal College of Art UK10. Subversive Plasticity: Materials' Histories and Cultural Categories in the PhilippinesDeirdre McKay Keele University UK11. Diamonds Machines and Colors: Moving Materials in Ritual ExchangeFilipe Calvao Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies SwitzerlandPart V: Ecologies of Materials' Social Lives12. Sustainability and the Co-constitution of Substances and SubjectsSarah Wilkes University College London UK13. The Peony and the Rose: Social Change and Fragrance Marketing in China's Bath MarketChan Chow Wah independent scholar Singapore14. The Woollen Blanket and its Imagined Values: Material Transformations of Woollen Blankets in Contemporary ARtFiona P. McDonald University College London UKThe Implications of Materials Innovation and Disposal15. Materials: The Story of UseSusanne Küchler University College London UKIndex
PrefacePart I: Introduction1. To Live in a Materials WorldAdam Drazin University College London UKPart II: On Materials Innovation2. What's in a Plant Leaf? A Case Study of Materials Innovation in New ZealandGraeme Were University of Queensland Australia3. Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials Andrew Barry Oxford University UK4. Towards Designing New Sensoaesthetic Materials: The Role of Materials LibrariesMark Miodownik University College London UK5. The Science of Sensory Evaluation: An Ethnographic CritiqueDavid Howes Concordia University CanadaPart III: From Substance to Form6. Wild Silk Indigo Wrappers of Dogon of Mali: An Ethnography of Materials Efficacy and DesignLaurence Douny University College London UK7. Fashioning Plastic: Changing Materials in DesignTom Fisher University of Nottingham UK8. Dressing for God: Cloth as Material of Religious Subjectivity in a Hindu Group Urmila Mohan University College London UKPart IV: The Subversion of Form by Substance9. Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold: An Attempt to Reconfigure the Social Identity of a SubstancePeter Oakley Royal College of Art UK10. Subversive Plasticity: Materials' Histories and Cultural Categories in the PhilippinesDeirdre McKay Keele University UK11. Diamonds Machines and Colors: Moving Materials in Ritual ExchangeFilipe Calvao Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies SwitzerlandPart V: Ecologies of Materials' Social Lives12. Sustainability and the Co-constitution of Substances and SubjectsSarah Wilkes University College London UK13. The Peony and the Rose: Social Change and Fragrance Marketing in China's Bath MarketChan Chow Wah independent scholar Singapore14. The Woollen Blanket and its Imagined Values: Material Transformations of Woollen Blankets in Contemporary ARtFiona P. McDonald University College London UKThe Implications of Materials Innovation and Disposal15. Materials: The Story of UseSusanne Küchler University College London UKIndex
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