Handbook of Material Culture

He has written a number of books on archaeological theory exploring the relations between hermeneutic, structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives and material culture. Professor Michael Rowlands teaches cultural heritage and museum anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University College, London. His research interests include the theorisation and conceptualisation of cultural heritage, material culture studies and cultural property in relation to long term social and cultural change. He has conducted fieldwork research in West Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia) to investigate negotiations of material culture, heritage and museums. He currently coordinates a cultural heritage research project between China and Europe funded by the EU and works in partnership with the National Taiwan University on the revitalisation of indigenous cultural knowledge. His research also focuses on post-conflict recovery through the Global Post-Conflict Recovery Network. In 1973 he was awarded a PhD in Anthropology by University College London.

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES In the Matter of Marxism - Bill Maurer Structuralism and Semiotics - Robert Layton Phenomenology and Material Culture - Julian Thomas Objectification - Christopher Tilley Agency, Biography and Objects - Janet Hoskins Scenes from a Troubled Engagement - Bjornar Olsen Post-structuralism and Material Culture Studies Colonial Matters - Peter van Dommelen Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations THE BODY, MATERIALITY AND THE SENSES Four Types of Visual Culture - Christopher Pinney Food, Eating, and the Good Life - Judith Farquar Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia - David Howes Intersensuality and Material Culture The Colours of Things - Diana Young Inside and Outside - Jean-Pierre Warnier Surfaces and Containers SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS Cloth and Clothing - Jane Schneider Home Furnishing and Domestic Interiors - Robert St George Vernacular Architecture - Suzanne Preston Blier Architecture and Modernism - Victor Buchli "Primitivism," Anthropology and the Category of "Primitive Art" - Fred Myers Tracking Globalization - Robert Foster Commodities and Value in Motion Place and Landscape - Barbara Bender Cultural Memory - Paul Connerton PROCESS AND TRANSFORMATION Technology as Material Culture - Ron Eglash Consumption - Daniel Miller Design, Style and Function - Meg Conkey Exchange - James Carrier Performance - Jonathan Mitchell Present to Past - Paul Lane Ethnoarchaeology Material Culture and Long-term Change - Chris Gosden PRESENTATION AND POLITICS Intellectual Property and Rights - Marilyn Strathern An Anthropological Perspective Heritage and the Present Past - Beverley Butler Museums and Museum Displays - Anthony Shelton Monuments and Memorials - Michael Rowlands & Christopher Tilley Conservation as Material Culture - Diana Eastop Collectors and Collecting - Russell Belk

"The contributors pay serious attention to older and newer theoretical perspectives from a wide variety of sources, including literary currents of the 1990's. Architects, economists, and historians are largely welcome as visitors to this handbook." -- J. L. Cooper