Material Culture Reader

Victor Buchli is Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University College London.

'This is a useful 'reader' for those who are specifically interested in detailed issues raised by recent research into aspects of material culture.'The Art Book

• 1 Introduction. Victor Buchli 2 Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation Chris Tilley Introduction 'The Metaphorical Transformations of Wala Canoes' 3 The Anthropology of Art. Susanne Kchler Introduction 'Binding in the Pacific: Between Loops and Knots' 4 Visual Culture. Chris Pinney Introduction 'Photographic portraiture in Central India in the 1980s and 1990s' 5 Heritage and Cultural Property. Mike Rowlands Introduction 'The Power of Origins: Questions of Cultural Rights' 6 Landscape and Politics. Barbara Bender Introduction 'Contested Landscapes: Medieval to Present Day' 7 Memory and Conflict. Nicholas Saunders Introduction 'Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory: "Trench" Art and the Great War Re-cycled' 8 Architecture and the Domestic Sphere. Victor Buchli Introduction 'Khrushchev, Modernism and the Fight against Petit-bourgeois Consciousness in the Soviet Home' 9 Consumption. Danny Miller Introduction 'Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad'