A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

Author:   Professor Laurie Wilkie ,  Professor John Chenoweth
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   02 May 2024
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A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Laurie A. Wilkie is Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. John M. Chenoweth, is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

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Author:   Professor Laurie Wilkie ,  Professor John Chenoweth
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350463639


ISBN 10:   1350463639
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   02 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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VOLUME 6: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF OBJECTS IN THE MODERN AGE Edited by Laurie Wilkie, University of California, Berkeley, USA, & John Chenoweth, University of Michigan, USA 1. Objecthood, Chris Whitmore 2. Technology, Steven A. Walton & Tim Scarlett 3. Economic Objects, Paul Graves-Brown 4. Everyday Objects, Stacy L Camp 5. Art, Suzanne Kuechler & Timothy Carroll 6. Architecture, Paul Mullins 7. Bodily Objects, Laurie A. Wilkie, Katrina C. L. Eichner, Kelly Fong, David H. Hyde, Alyssa Scott, and Annelise Morris 8. Object Worlds, Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal

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Laurie A. Wilkie, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, USA John M. Chenoweth, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

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