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Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter (1st Edition) by Daniel Miller (Editor) Paperback, 251 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-226-52601-1 / 0226526011 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52601-0 / 9780226526010 The field of material culture, while historically well established, has recently enjoyed something of a renaissance. Methods once dominated by Marxist- and commodity-oriented analyses and by the study of objects as symbols are giving way to a more ethnographic approach to artifacts. This orientation |