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The Material Life of Human Beings: Artifacts, Behavior and Communication
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by Michae Schiffer
Sales Rank: 206205
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List Price: $39.95
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Paperback: 158 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition May 14, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415200334
ISBN-13: 978-0415200332
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
Product Review
Challenging social scientists who privilege language - that is, sounds and words - in the study of human behavior, Schiffer argues that people-object relations are the key to unlocking the everyday world. Putting the spotlight on things, he offers a theory of communications that is rooted not in verbal performance, but in the archaeology of daily life..
–-Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Technology and Culture
A most valuable, original, and often controversial contribution to the fundamental realisation in the social sciences that society cannot be conceived without material culture.
–Michael Shanks
Product Description
In this ground-breaking work, the distinguished anthropological theorist, Michael Schiffer, presents a profound challenge to the social sciences. Through a broad range of examples, he demonstrates how theories of behavior 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 symbolic language but the incessant and diverse transactions that take place between people and myriad artifacts. The author shows that artifacts are involved in al 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 analyzing communication and behavior. Challenging established theories within the social sciences, the author offers a reassessment of the centrality of materiality to everyday life.
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