Material Culture Bibliography (Theory and Methodology)

Please Keep this Bibliography organized alphabetically by author:

A | B |C | D |E | F | G |H | I |J | K |L | M |N | O |P | Q |R | S |T | U |V | W |X | Y |Z

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Appadurai, Arjun; 1986. “Introduction: commodities and politics of value,” in The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective. Arjun Appadurai (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3-62.

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Brown, B. 2001. ‘Thing Theory’, Critical Inquiry 28(1): 1-22.

Brown, B. 2003. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Dietler, Michael and Ingrid Herbich; 1998. “Habitus, techniques, style: an integrated approach to the social understanding of material culture and boundaries” in The archaeology of social boundaries. M. T. Stark (ed.); Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 232-263.

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Elkins, J. 1997. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Ellen, Roy. 1988. Fetishism. Man (N.S.) 23:213-35

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Featherstone, M., 1991. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism, London.

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Gell, A. 1998. Art and agency. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Grint, K. and Woolgar, S. 1997: The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization, Cambridge.

Gosden, Chris and Ywonne Marshall; 1999. “Cultural biography of objects,” World Archaeology 31: 169-178.

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Harman, G. 2002. Tool-being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects. Open Court Publishing.

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Ingold, T. 2007. ‘Materials against materiality’, Archaeological Dialogues 14(1): 1-16.

Isayev, E. 2006. ‘Archaeology ≠ object as history ≠ text: nudging the special relationship into the post-ironic’, World Archaeology 38(4): 599-610.

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Knappett, C. 2004. ‘The affordances of things: a post-Gibsonian perspective on the relationality of mind and matter’, in E. DeMarrais, C. Gosden & C. Renfrew (eds.), Rethinking Materiality: The Engagement of Mind with the Material World, 43-51. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs.

Knappett, C. 2005. Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kopytoff, Igor; 1986. “The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process,” in The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lane, D., Pumain, D., Van der Leeuw, S.E., and West, G. (eds.), in press. Complexity Perspectives on Innovation and Social Change. New York: Springer.

Latour, B. 1996: Aramis, The Love of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Latour, Bruno. 1992. “Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts,” pp. 225-258 in Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, Shaping Technology/Building Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Meskell, L. 2004. Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present. Oxford: Berg.

Mitchell, W. J. T. 2005. What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

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Pinney, Christopher and Nicholas Thomas (eds.); 2001. Beyond aesthetics : art and the technologies of enchantment. Oxford ; New York : Berg.

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Rathje, W., 1979: Modern material culture studies, Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 2, 1-37.

Renfrew, Colin. 2004. Towards a theory of material engagement. In Rethinking Materiality: The Engagement of Mind with the Material World, edited by Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden, and Colin Renfrew, pp. 23-31. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

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Schwenger, P. 2006. The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Schiffer, M., 2000: Indigenous theories, scientific theories and product histories, In P. Graves-Brown (ed), Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture, London, 72-96.

Shove, E., Watson, M., Hand, M. and Ingram, J. 2007. The Design of Everyday Life, Oxford.

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Thompson, M. 1979. Rubbish Theory, Oxford.

Tilley, Christopher; 2001. “Ethnography and material culture,” in Handbook of Ethnography. P. Atkinson et. Al. (eds.). London: Sage Pub., 258-272.

Turkle, Sherry. 2007. (ed.) Evocative Objects: things we think with. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.