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Cultural Histories of the Material World
Peter N. Miller, EditorAll across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the "material turn" in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different fields—from Art History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Folklore, History, History of Science, Literature, Philosophy—to offer their vision of what cultural history of the material world looks like and attempt to show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means. The result is a spectacular kaleidoscope of future possibilities and new perspectives.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction: The Culture of the Hand
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1. Art's Challenge
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ONE Design History and the Decorative Arts
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TWO The Materiality of Art
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2. The Place of the Material
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THREE Mutually Contextual: Materials, Bodies, and Objects
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FOUR Museum Display, an Algonquian Bow, and the Ship of Theseus
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FIVE Cultural Histories of the Material World: Whose Material World?
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SIX The History of Facebook
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SEVEN Dirty, Pretty Things: On Archaeology and Prehistoric Materialities
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EIGHT Archaeology and Design History: A Thesis and Nine Theses
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3. Experience and Material
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NINE Swelling Toads, Translation, and the Paradox of the Concrete
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TEN Materiality and Cultural Translation: Indigenous Arts, Colonial Exchange, and Postcolonial Perspectives
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ELEVEN The Antiquarian, the Collector, and the Cultural History of the Material World
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TWELVE Mountain as Material: Landscape Inscriptions in China
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THIRTEEN Objects and History
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FOURTEEN Beyond Representation: Things—Human and Nonhuman
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FIFTEEN Materialities of Culture
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4. Future Histories
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SIXTEEN Toward a Cultural History of the Material World
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SEVENTEEN Thoughts on Cultural Histories of the Material World
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EIGHTEEN The History of Science as a Cultural History of the Material World
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NINETEEN Reflecting on Recipes
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TWENTY Music in the Material World: Cultural Traces and Historical Cases
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TWENTY-ONE A Cultural History of the Material World of Islam
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TWENTY-TWO Franz Kugler and the Concept of World Art History
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TWENTY-THREE The Missing Link: “Antiquarianism,” “Material Culture,” and “Cultural Science” in the Work of G. F. Klemm
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Contributors
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Index
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