Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture

Book Overview

Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including:
* why do Berliners have such strange door keys?
* should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved?
* could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket
* why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415167051
• ISBN13: 9780415167055
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"