Material Lives

Author : Serena Dyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350126985

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Material Lives by Serena Dyer Pdf

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making has traditionally been seen as decorative, trivial and superficial. Yet their material archives, forged through fabric samples, watercolours, dressed prints and dolls' garments, reveal how women used the material culture of making to record and navigate their lives. Material Lives positions women as 'makers' in a consumer society. Through fragments of fabric and paper, Dyer explores an innovative way of accessing the lives of otherwise obscured women. For researchers and students of material culture, dress history, consumption, gender and women's history, it offers a rich resource to illuminate the power of needles, paintbrushes and scissors.

Author : Maia Kotrosits
Publisher : Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9780226707587

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The Lives of Objects by Maia Kotrosits Pdf

"Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--

Author : Malcolm Holzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864702117

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A Material Life by Malcolm Holzman Pdf

"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 : Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317374558

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The Global Lives of Things by Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello Pdf

The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which ‘things’, ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, this volume traces the movements of objects through human networks of commerce, colonialism and consumption. It argues that material objects mediated between the forces of global economic exchange and the constantly changing identities of individuals, as they were drawn into global circuits. It proposes a reconceptualization of early modern global history in the light of its material culture by asking the question: what can we learn about the early modern world by studying its objects? This exciting new collection draws together the latest scholarship in the study of material culture and offers students a critique and explanation of the notion of commodity and a reinterpretation of the meaning of exchange. It engages with the concepts of ‘proto-globalization’, ‘the first global age’ and ‘commodities/consumption’. Divided into three parts, the volume considers in Part One, Objects of Global Knowledge, in Part Two, Objects of Global Connections, and finally, in Part Three, Objects of Global Consumption. The collection concludes with afterwords from three of the leading historians in the field, Maxine Berg, Suraiya Faroqhi and Paula Findlen, who offer their critical view of the methodologies and themes considered in the book and place its arguments within the wider field of scholarship. Extensively illustrated, and with chapters examining case studies from Northern Europe to China and Australia, this book will be essential reading for students of global history.

Author : Anna Gatmon, PhD
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781631522574

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Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World by Anna Gatmon, PhD Pdf

Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World shows us how spiritual fulfillment and material gratification can enhance each other, and offers tools to integrating them and experiencing the peace, purpose, and prosperity we all seek. Based on her doctoral research, Anna Gatmon developed the Four Keys to Spiritual-Material balance, a unique approach to manifesting a life in which the sacred and the mundane are creatively balanced. Gatmon's message is universal and as relevant to the materially minded as it is to the spiritually oriented, regardless of faith and denomination. It's a practical formula which reveal how to live a spiritually fulfilling life without having to give up material needs and pleasures. THE FOUR KEYS TO SPIRITUAL-MATERIAL BALANCE Key #1: Expansive Presence - Connect with a more enlightened you Key #2: Attentive Listening - Access your inner wisdom Key #3: Inspired Action - Manifest your dreams, goals, and purpose Key #4: Faith-Filled Knowing - Embrace daily miracles BENEFITS OF PRACTICING THE FOUR KEYS • Change your outlook and mood within minutes • Shift from feeling alone to feeling connected • Make intuitive decisions with clarity and confidence • Have a greater impact on daily situations • Experience the excitement of realizing your unique calling • Create ongoing spiritual-material abundance • Lead a balanced and gratifying physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual life.

Author : Sandra R. Joshel,Lauren Hackworth Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521191647

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The Material Life of Roman Slaves by Sandra R. Joshel,Lauren Hackworth Petersen Pdf

The Material Life of Roman Slaves retrieves and represents the physical environment and lives of Roman slaves.

Author : Julie Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409040231

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The Secret Life of Stuff by Julie Hill Pdf

Wouldn't you like: - Products that don't damage the environment? - A better way of life without agonising about your 'footprint'? - To really know your stuff? Climate change? Biofuels? Nuclear power? Landfills? Recycling? Renewable energy? Environmental issues can feel overwhelming. But, in fact, it is simple; it all comes down to one thing - stuff. Our use of the Earth's resources - whether a crisp packet or a cargo ship, a T-shirt or a wind turbine - has an inescapable impact on our future. In The Secret Life of Stuff, Julie Hill uncovers the origins and the true cost of what we use. Her inventory of over-consumption may shock but it is the first step towards overcoming waste. The misuse of stuff is not your fault, it's a product of history. But it is only by understanding what has gone wrong, that everyone - politicians, business people and us as consumers - can create a new and better material world.

Author : Teren Sevea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108477185

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Miracles and Material Life by Teren Sevea Pdf

Sevea reveals a universe of miracle-workers in Islamic Malaya, connecting the supernatural to material life, socioeconomic activities and production.

Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134637249

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The Material Life of Human Beings by Michael Brian Schiffer Pdf

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 : Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576076484

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Material Culture in America by Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda Pdf

The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:943937646

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Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Beverly Lemire,Laura Peers,Anne Whitelaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228003989

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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America by Beverly Lemire,Laura Peers,Anne Whitelaw Pdf

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.

Author : Pauliina Rautio,Elina Stenvall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811331619

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Social, Material and Political Constructs of Arctic Childhoods by Pauliina Rautio,Elina Stenvall Pdf

This book addresses the geopolitical notion of the 'Arctic' through the everyday experiences of children. It explores the Arctic as various materializations that matter to, condition and define childhoods in Nordic countries. Presenting nine thematically very different but theoretically and methodologically coherent studies, it enables readers to gain an in-depth understanding of a selection of recent sociomaterialist, posthumanist and post-anthropocentric research on childhood in the Nordic context. The book offers new ideas and insights as to what matters in children's lives - in Arctic contexts.

Author : George W. Boudreau,Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Material culture
ISBN : 0271081155

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A Material World by George W. Boudreau,Margaretta M. Lovell Pdf

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.

Author : Tim Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134787609

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Material Concerns by Tim Jackson Pdf

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.