Understanding Material Culture by Ian Woodward
Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen? Why do people crave shoes or handbags? Is our desire for objects unhealthy, or irrational? This book offers a systematic overview of the diverse ways of studying the material as culture.
This book deserves its niche, both as a textbook covering long standing debates and discussions, but also as an entry point to a particular perspectiveIt comes about as close as anything I have seen to a genuine standard textbook that tries to transcend particular disciplines. -- Material World
Ian Woodward is a professor in the Department of Marketing and Management at the University of Southern Denmark. He has research interests in the sociological aspects of consumption and material culture and in the cultural and consumptive dimensions of cosmopolitanism, cultural openness, and boundary work. Most recently, he published the coauthored books Vinyl, The Analogue Record in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2015, with Dominik Bartmanski) and Cosmopolitanism, Uses of the Idea (SAGE/Theory, Culture & Society, 2013, with Zlatko Skrbis). He has published widely on a range of related theoretical and empirical areas within consumption and material culture studies, alongside studies of everyday cosmopolitanism including most recently studies around consumer cosmopolitanism, gender, hospitality, fairness, and encounters. With Frederick F. Wherry, he is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Consumption, and with Julie Emontspool, editor of the collection Cosmopolitanism, Markets and Consumption.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761942269 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761942262 |
| Title | Understanding Material Culture |
| Author | Ian Woodward |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2007-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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