Reading Matter. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture.

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New Brunswick and London; Transaction Publishers, 1992. 23,5x16 cm. (6, 2 blanks), 148 pp. Publisher's cloth with printed dustjacket. Foot of spine is insignificantly bumped. A fine copy. "To be civilized involves, among other things, making, using, and buying objects. Although speculation on the significance of objects often tends to be casual, there are professionals--anthropologists, historians, semioticians, Marxists, sociologists, and psychologists--who analyze material culture in a systematic way and attempt to elicit from it reliable information about people, societies, and cultures. One reason that analyzing objects has been problematical for scholars is the lack of a sound methodology governing multidisciplinary research. Reading Matter addresses this problem by defining a comprehensive set of methodological approaches that can be used to analyze and interpret material culture and relate it to personality and society. Berger offers discussions of the main concepts found in semiotic, historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and sociological analysis. He provides practical descriptions of the working methods of each discipline and demarcates their special areas of investigation. Berger's lively discussions include a wealth of illustrative examples that help to clarify the complex and often difficult theories that underlie interpretations of material culture." (front flap).…

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Reading Matter. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture.
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Berger, Arthur Asa
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