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OverviewThis book argues that the traditional approach to material culture has focused on the symbolic meanings of objects and largely overlooked the material impact that objects have on everyday life in contemporary culture in late modernity. Using the motor car as a recurring theme. Dant resists the now well established model of consumption as the principal relationship with 'things' in our lives, and argues that it is through material interaction that we confront our society through the objects that surround us. Often our engagement with material culture takes for granted the things that we see and touch, so we do not notice how they enable us to carry on the sorts of lives we do. Familiarity and habit means that the complexity of our interaction with objects - from cars, to kettles, to cartons - reflects our culture back to us, without us really being aware of it. Drawing on and debating with historical, philosophical and theoretical discourses that address materiality from Braudel to Heidegger, from Merleau-Ponty to Latour, this book opens up new lines of enquiry and proposes that the interaction between people and things deserves closer study. This book will of interest to students a Full Product DetailsAuthor: DantPublisher: Open University Press Imprint: Open University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9780335208562ISBN 10: 0335208568 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 16 December 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTim Dant is lecturer in sociology at the University of East Anglia. He has published a number of books, articles and chapters on the topics of materiality and consumer culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |