Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life : Ethnographic Approaches Hardback
Edited by Professor Phillip Vannini
Part of the Intersections in Communications and Culture series
Hardback
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Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own - one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one's body.
In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:25/02/2009
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- ISBN:9781433103025
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:25/02/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781433103025
