Author : Malcolm Holzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864702118
"This book is by New York architect Malcolm Holzman. It explores his relationships with and thoughts about the various building materials he has used throughout his career. Chapters cover glazed tile, glass, metal, wood, clay, materials appropriated from other sources, sustainable materials, and the use of art in architecture. It is heavily illustrated with examples of the various materials."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134637241
In this ground-breaking work, the distinguished anthropological theorist, Michael Brian Schiffer, presents a profound challenge to the social sciences. Through a broad range of examples, he demonstrates how theories of behaviour and communication have too often ignored the fundamental importance of objects in human life. In The Material Life of Human Beings, the author builds upon the premise that the most important feature of human life is not language but the relationships which take place between people and objects. The author shows that artifacts are involved in all modes of human communication - be they visual, auditory or tactile. By creatively folding elements of postmodernist thought into a scientific framework, he creates new concepts and models for understanding and analysing communication and behavior. Challenging established theories within the social sciences, Michael Brian Schiffer offers a reassessment of the centrality of materiality to everyday life.
Author : Teren Sevea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108477186
Sevea reveals a universe of miracle-workers in Islamic Malaya, connecting the supernatural to material life, socioeconomic activities and production.
Author : Bridie McGreavy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319657119
This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and ecology. The chapters build a multi-layered understanding of material life by gathering scholars from varied theoretical and critical traditions around the common theme of ecology. Emphasizing relationality, connectedness and context, the ecological orientation we build informs both rhetorical theory and environmentalist interventions. Contributors offer practical-theoretical inquiries into several areas - rhetoric’s cosmologies, the trophe, bioregional rhetoric’s, nuclear colonialism, and more - collectively forging new avenues of communication among scholars in environmental communication, communication studies, and rhetoric and composition. This book aims at inspiring and advancing ecological thinking, demonstrating its value for rhetoric and communication as well as for environmental thought and action.
Author : George W. Boudreau
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Material culture
ISBN : 9780271081151
A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree.
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Sandra R. Joshel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 113999140X
The Material Life of Roman Slaves is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the archaeology of Roman slavery. Rather than regarding slaves as irretrievable in archaeological remains, the book takes the archaeological record as a key form of evidence for reconstructing slaves' lives and experiences. Interweaving literature, law, and material evidence, the book searches for ways to see slaves in the various contexts - to make them visible where evidence tells us they were in fact present. Part of this project involves understanding how slaves seem irretrievable in the archaeological record and how they are often actively, if unwittingly, left out of guidebooks and scholarly literature. Individual chapters explore the dichotomy between visibility and invisibility and between appearance and disappearance in four physical and social locations - urban houses, city streets and neighborhoods, workshops, and villas.
Author : Margaret M. Lock
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : 9780822338451
A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.
Author : Tim Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 113478760X
Material Concerns offers new perspectives on key environmental issues - pollution prevention, ecological economics, limits to sustainability, consumer behaviour and government policy. The first non-technical introduction to preventative environmental management, Material Concerns offers realistic prospects for improving the quality of life.
Author : M. F. Ashby
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0123859719
Addressing the growing global concern for sustainable engineering, this title is devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials.
