Reading Matter: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture

by Arthur Asa Berger

Book Overview

To be civilized involves, among other things, making, using, and buying objects. Although speculation on the significance of objects often tends to be casual, there are professionals--anthropologists, historians, semioticians, Marxists, sociologists, and psychologists--who analyze material culture in a systematic way and attempt to elicit from it reliable information about people, societies, and cultures. One reason that analyzing objects has been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887384358
• ISBN13: 9780887384356
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.