Cultural Histories of the Material World

Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, Cultural Histories of the Material World provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality and material culture from a historical perspective. These scholars represent some of the most innovative voices in their respective fields, using historiographical lens to chronicle how the field of material culture has operated between multiple disciplines and has grown to prominence in the last two decades, both inside and beyond the academy. Essential reading for the study of material culture and including writing by Bill Brown, Nancy Troy, Horst Bredekamp, Jaś Elsner, and Pamela H. Smith, this book builds on the recent proliferation of works that address materiality and offers unified collection of key perspectives on the material turn across the humanities.
 

Reunind lucrarile a peste douazeci de savanti internationali din diferite discipline, Istoriile culturale ale lumii materiale ofera o colectie substantiala de lucrari care exploreaza materialitatea si cultura materiala dintr-o perspectiva istorica. Acesti carturari reprezinta unele dintre cele mai inovatoare voci din domeniile lor respective, folosind lentile istoriografice pentru a relata modul in care domeniul culturii materiale a functionat intre mai multe discipline si a crescut la importanta in ultimele doua decenii, atat in interiorul, cat si in afara academiei.