This book highlights studies from anthropology, archaeology and philosophy that demonstrate that not all individuals and societies view minerals as commodities to be exploited for economic gain, or passive objects of disembodied scientific enquiry.
This book highlights studies from anthropology, archaeology and philosophy that demonstrate that not all individuals and societies view minerals as...
Material culture has been part of a distinctively human way of life for over two million years. Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much attention to the role of material culture in human society, emphasizing the representational and ideological aspects of the material world. These studies have, nonetheless, often overlooked how the very physicality of material culture and our material surroundings make them unique and distinctive from text and discourse. In this study, Nicole Boivin explores how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological...
Material culture has been part of a distinctively human way of life for over two million years. Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much at...
