Handbook of Material Culture

The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe. The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. It is cutting-edge: rather than simply reviewing the field as it currently exists. It also attempts to chart the future: the manner in which material culture studies may be extended and developed.

The Handbook of Material Culture is divided into five sections.

- Section I maps material culture studies as a theoretical and conceptual field.

- Section II examines the relationship between material forms, the human body and the senses.

- Section III focuses on subject-object relations.

- Section IV considers things in terms of processes and transformations in terms o