THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MATERIALS

Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have o ften been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as 'social' yet the materials which comprise them are considered 'raw' or natural'. The Social Life of Materials proposes a new perspective in this interdisciplinary field. Dive rting attention from the consumption of objects, the book looks towards the properties of materials and how these exist through many transfor...[Read more]