Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture

Edited by Paul Graves-Brown

Price: $120.00

ISBN: 978-0-415-16704-8
Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 11th May 2000
Pages: 192
Illustrations: 19 line drawings and 13 b+w photos

About the Book

Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including:
* why do Berliners have such strange door keys?
* should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved?
* could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket
* why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?

About the Author(s)

P.M. Graves-Brown studied Archaeology and Prehistory at Sheffield University and gained his PhD in archaeology at Southampton University. He currently works as an archaeological curator in South Wales. He has published a wider variety of work, mainly on human origins and modern material culture.