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Material culture and technology in everyday life : ethnographic approaches
- Title
- Material culture and technology in everyday life : ethnographic approaches / edited by Phillip Vannini.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, ©2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Vannini, Phillip.
- Description
- xiii, 253 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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 ownone made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating ones 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 examinefrom the participants perspectivethe interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.
- Series Statement
- Intersections in communications and culture, 1528-610X ; v. 25
- Uniform Title
- Intersections in communications and culture ; v. 25.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung
- [Études diverses]
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Ways of knowing the material world -- Material culture studies and the sociology and anthropology of technology / Phillip Vannini -- Actor-network theory : translation as material culture / Grant Kien -- The social construction of technology (SCOT) : the old, the new, and the nonhuman / Trevor Pinch -- Material culture and narrative : fusing myth, materiality, and meaning / Ian Woodward -- Material culture and technoculture as interaction / Phillip Vannini -- pt. 2. Ethnographic strategies of representing the material world -- From embodied ethnography to the anthropology of material culture : gaming in the field / Melanie Roustan -- On driving a car and being a family : an autoethnography / Chaim Noy -- The screen deconstructed : video-based studies of the malleable screen / Dylan Tutt and Jon Hindmarsh -- Technologies of consumption : the social semiotics of Turkish shopping malls / Tanfer Emin Tunc -- Cultural phenomenology and the material culture of mobile media / Ingrid Richardson and Amanda Third -- A grounded theory approach to engaging technology on the paintball field / Ariane Hanemaayer -- pt. 3. Ethnographic studies -- What gardens mean / Chris Tilley -- Making it, not making it : creating music in everyday life / Bryce Merrill -- The death of the clinic : domestic medical sensoring / Patrick Laviolette -- The zapper and the zapped : microwave ovens and the people who use them / Tina Peterson.
- ISBN
- 9781433103018
- 143310301X
- 9781433103025
- 1433103028
- LCCN
- 2008025237
- OCLC
- ocn232002029
- 232002029
- SCSB-1514442
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library