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What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture

Arthur Asa Berger

April 2009, 312 pages, $34.95 Paper

 

Objects, artifacts, and other forms of material culture are studied in many
different parts of the university. Yet, to date, there has been no
introductory book that allows students to understand the basic ways in which
material culture can be studied. Arthur Asa Berger provides a brief,
user-friendly guide for students learning what objects can mean. He takes
the reader through half a dozen theoretical models that are commonly used to
understand objects. He then describes and analyzes fifteen objects, showing
how they demonstrate ideas like authenticity, globalization, and identity.
Berger provides a series of exercises at the end to allow students to do
their own analyses of objects in their environment. Brief and inexpensive
enough to be included as a component in courses ranging from anthropology to
art history, pop culture to psychology, Berger’s introductory guide to
material culture will be of use to many instructors and their students.

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