TY - BOOK ID - 7538063 TI - Things in culture, culture in things AU - Kannike, Anu AU - Laviolette, Patrick PY - 2013 SN - 9789949323951 PB - Tartu University of Tartu Press DB - UniCat KW - Material culture. KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - material culture KW - technologies KW - consumption KW - collecting KW - waste KW - home UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7538063 AB - This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable, and waste and technologies. The first section discusses the meanings of the lived environment on the individual and national levels. The second section provides specific examples on the role of things in identity construction. The third section focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of consumption and collecting. The phenomena under scrutiny in the fourth section are moral dilemmas associated with and representations of dirt/waste and advancements in science and technology. Presenting diverse case studies of material culture, the volume points to rich interdisciplinary approaches in cultural theory. ER -