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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Realm of the Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 1 Philosophical Views on Material Culture -- 2 Multilingualism and Studies in Material Culture -- 3 Introducing the Study of the Real World: Materialities in Applied Linguistics -- 4 The Field of the Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 5 Studies in the Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 6 The Present Volume -- 7 Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 8 Part II: Awareness of Materialities and Material Culture -- 9 Part III: Material Culture of Multilingualism: Particular Cases in Various Locations -- References -- Part I: Theoretical Issues of the Material Culture of Multilingualism -- Theoretical Underpinnings of the Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scope, Subject and Aims of the Field of the Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 2.1 What Is Material Culture? Definitions and Scope -- 2.2 The Object of Study in Material Culture of Multilingualism: Language - Defined Objects -- 2.2.1 Types of Language Defined Objects -- 3 The Role of the Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 3.1 Material Culture of Multilingualism as Discourse -- 3.2 Affective Understanding -- 3.3 Creating Place Out of Space -- 4 Exploring Materialities as a Method of Research in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism. Essential Features of Material Culture of Multilingualism -- 4.1 Solidity and Concreteness of Material Culture -- 4.2 Temporal Tenacity and Dynamicity in Time, Space, Form, and Value -- 4.3 Three-Dimensional Indexicality -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- The World of Things: Material Culture in Language Teaching and Teacher Education -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Things as Objects of Study. Material Culture in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Spiritual versus the Material? -- 2 Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology -- The problematic nature of material culture in studies in religion -- The problematic nature of religion in archaeological studies of materiality -- 3 Archaeologies of Religion -- The Marxist and functionalist context -- Archaeology as a social science -- Interpretative archaeology -- 4 Sacred and Profane Landscapes -- Landscape, phenomenology and religion -- The sacred and the profane -- Reflexive religious landscapes -- 5 Archaeology and the Materiality of Religion -- Bibliography -- Index.

"With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth - economic, aesthetic and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors' obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture and design; literature, languages, cultures and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory - the memory of refugees, migrants and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss - can become embodied in material culture. This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies"--

Popular resistance movements toward new technology in El Salvador are assessed. It is argued that new technologies such as hybrid seeds in farming & chemical warfare in the military are threatening the community's connection with its traditional material culture. Resistance movements, including those that emanate from the church, & environmental activists are considered through several anecdotal illustrations. Finally, it is asserted that adopting new technologies to the local culture is a profoundly political act, one that outsiders would be wise to consider when entering into this culture. D. M. Smith