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The Material Culture Reader: Edited by Victor Buchli

The Material Culture Reader is an edited collection of essays on various topics related to material culture studies. It contains 9 chapters that cover themes such as metaphor and materiality in interpretation, visual culture, heritage and cultural property, landscape and politics, memory and conflict, architecture and the domestic sphere, and consumption. Each chapter begins with an introduction by the editor and is followed by a sample essay that exemplifies the theme of that section. The collection aims to provide concise case studies and analyses of material objects and artifacts that can help readers understand different aspects of culture and society.

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The Material Culture Reader: Edited by Victor Buchli

The Material Culture Reader is an edited collection of essays on various topics related to material culture studies. It contains 9 chapters that cover themes such as metaphor and materiality in interpretation, visual culture, heritage and cultural property, landscape and politics, memory and conflict, architecture and the domestic sphere, and consumption. Each chapter begins with an introduction by the editor and is followed by a sample essay that exemplifies the theme of that section. The collection aims to provide concise case studies and analyses of material objects and artifacts that can help readers understand different aspects of culture and society.

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The Material Culture Reader

Edited by
Victor Buchli

Oxford • New York


Contents

Acknowledgements vii

List of Figures ix

1 Introduction 1
Victor Buchli

2 Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation


Introduction 23
'The Metaphorical Transformations of Wala Canoes' 27
Christopher Tilley

3 The Anthropology of Art


Introduction 57
'Binding in the Pacific: Between Loops and Knots' 63
Susanne Küchler

4 Visual Culture
Introduction 81
'Photographic portraiture in Central India in the 1980s and 1990s' 87
Christopher Pinney

5 Heritage and Cultural Property


Introduction 105
'The Power of Origins: Questions of Cultural Rights' 115
Michael Rowlands

6 Landscape and Politics


Introduction 135
'Contested Landscapes: Medieval to Present Day' 141
Barbara Bender

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7 Memory and Conflict


Introduction 175
'Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory: "Trench Art" and the
Great War Re-cycled' 181
Nicholas J. Saunders

8 Architecture and the Domestic Sphere


Introduction 207
'Khrushchev, Modernism and the Fight against Petit-bourgeois
Consciousness in the Soviet Home' 215
Victor Buchli

9 Consumption
Introduction 237
'Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad' 245
Daniel Miller

Index 265

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