
Author/Contributor(s): | Hicks, Dan ; Beaudry, Mary C |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Date: | 10/16/2018 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
commissioned essays by leading international researchers, the volume explores contemporary issues and debates in a series of themed sections - Disciplinary Perspectives, Material Practices, Objects and Humans, Landscapes and the Built Environment, and Studying Particular Things. From Coca-Cola,
chimpanzees, artworks, and ceramics, to museums, cities, human bodies, and magical objects, the Handbook is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in materiality and the place of material things in human life, both past and present. A comprehensive bibliography enhances its usefulness
both as a research tool and as a classroom text.