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How Materials Matter - Graeme Were

How Materials Matter

Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

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Buch | Hardcover
212 Seiten
2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-201-4 (ISBN)
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Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.
How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.

Graeme Were is chair and professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol. He has a regional specialism in Papua New Guinea, where he has conducted ongoing ethnographic fieldwork since 2000. His published work includes Lines that Connect (2010) and Extreme Collecting (Berghahn, 2012) co-edited with J.C.H. King.

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations



Introduction: Materials and Design



PART I: MATERIALS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE



Chapter 1. On the Materials of Mats

Chapter 2. Materials on the Move

Chapter 3. What’s in a Plant Leaf?



PART II: MATERIALS: DESIGN: TRANSFORMATION



Chapter 4. Of Canoes and Troughs

Chapter 5. Enclosures and Disclosures



PART III: MATERIAL FUTURES



Chapter 6. Returning Cultural Knowledge in a Digital Design Context

Chapter 7. Material Histories and the Changing Nature of Museum Collections



Conclusion: Towards a New Understanding of Materiality



Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-201-9 / 1789202019
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-201-4 / 9781789202014
Zustand Neuware
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