Material Cultures, Material Minds  -  Nicole Boivin

The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution

KORTE INHOUD

Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much attention to the role of material culture in human society, emphasising the representational and ideological aspects of the material world. These studies have, nonetheless, often overlooked how the very physicality of material culture and our material surroundings make them unique and distinctive from text and discourse. In this book, Boivin explores how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social re...
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2008 Uitgever: University Press Cambridge 269 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0521873975 ISBN-13: 9780521873970