Reading matter; multidisciplinary perspectives on material culture. (reprint, 1992)

by Berger, Arthur Asa

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Book description: Transaction Publishers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Berger (broadcast and electronic communication arts, San Francisco State U.) introduces important concepts in a number of methodologies that can be used to analyze material culture, and offers some examples of how the concepts can be or have been used. He focuses on material culture in relatively recent times--since people have become literate and started recording history--so the established methods of archaeological anthropology are of limited use, though not to be thrown out. He begins by explaining the semiotic, historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and sociological analysis of material culture. Turning to fashion then, he considers semiotics, myth and ritual, psychology, social aspects, and ideology. The 1992 edition was cloth bound. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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