Cultural histories of the material world

"This book considers how to study material culture from a historical perspective, and explores how studying material and materiality can enable new and different cultural historical perspectives. While gathering some of the most interesting thinkers in their respective fields, the contributions also examine material culture through a historiographical lens, considering how the field slipped between disciplines in the twentieth century, and how it has become more prominent inside and outside the academy in the last twenty years or so. The book builds on the recent proliferation of studies of materiality to offer a different, theoretically coherent approach to the topic"--

Introduction : The culture of the hand / Peter N. Miller -- Design history and the decorative arts / Glenn Adamson -- The materiality of art / Philippe Bordes -- Mutually contextual : materials, bodies and objects / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Musuem display, an Algonquian bow, and the ship of Theseus / Ivan Gaskell -- Cultural histories of the material world : whose material world? / Sabine MacCormack -- The history of Facebook / Daniel Miller -- Dirty, pretty things : on archaeology and prehistoric materialities / Lynn Meskell -- Archaeology and design history : a thesis and nine theses / Michael Shanks -- Swelling toads, translation, and the paradox of the concrete / Bernard L. Herman -- Materiality and cultural translation : indigenous arts, colonial exchange, and postcolonial perspectives / Ruth B. Phillips -- The antiquarian, the collector, and the cultural history of the material world / Alain Schnapp -- Mountain as material : landscape inscriptions in China / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. -- Objects and history / Jaâs Elsner -- Beyond representation : things, human and nonhuman / Ittai Weinryb -- Materialities of culture / Bill Brown -- Toward a cultural history of the material world / Juliet Fleming -- Thoughts on cultural histories of the material world / Nancy J. Troy -- The history of science as a cultural history of the material world / Pamela H. Smith -- Reflecting on recipes / Deborah L. Krohn -- Music in the material world : cultural traces and historical cases / Elaine Sisman -- A cultural history of the material world of Islam / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Franz Kugler and the concept of world art history / Horst Bredekamp -- The missing link : "antiquarianism," "material culture," and "cultural science" in the work of G.F. Klemm / Peter N. Miller