The Oxford handbook of material culture studies / edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

xvi, 774 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Introduction : material culture studies : a reactionary view / Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry -- The material-cultural turn : event and effect / Dan Hicks -- Material geographies / Ian Cook and Divya P. Tolia-Kelly -- Material culture in folklife studies / Robert Saint George -- Material histories / Ann Brower Stahl -- The materials of STS / John Law -- Material culture and the dance of agency / Andrew Pickering -- Consumption / Michael Dietler -- Fieldwork and collecting / Gavin Lucas -- Gifts and exchange / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- Art as action, art as evidence / Howard Morphy -- Archaeological assemblages and practices of deposition / Rosemary Joyce with Joshua Pollard -- Technology and material life / Kacy L. Hollenback and Michael Brian Schiffer -- The malice of inanimate objects : material agency / Andrew M. Jones and Nicole Boivin -- From identity and material culture to personhood and materiality / Chris Fowler -- Materiality and embodiment / Zoë Crossland -- Material culture in primates / Tatyana Humle -- Cultural landscapes / Lesley Head -- Ecological landscapes / Sarah Whatmore and Steve Hinchliffe -- Urban materialities : meaning, magnitude, friction, and outcomes / Roland Fletcher -- Architecture and cultural history / Carl R. Lounsbury -- Households and "home cultures" / Victor Buchli -- Stone tools / Rodney Harrison -- The landscape garden as material culture : lessons from France / Chandra Mukerji -- Built objects / Douglass Bailey and Lesley McFadyen -- Ceramics (as containers) / Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris, and Peter Tomkins -- Magical things : on fetishes, commodities, and computers / Peter Pels -- Afterword : fings ain't wot they use t' be : thinking through material thinking as placing and arrangement / Nigel Thrift.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [646]-758) and index.