Material Worlds

Description:

"Material Worlds explores consumption--broadly defined as the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse and discard--from an archaeological perspective. Moving from the interrogation of objects to the broader social world in which acts of consumption took place, case studies take an archaeological and object-centered approach to understand intertwined issues of power, inequality, identity, and community as mediated through choice, access, and use of the diversity of mass-produced goods. With a focus on North America, Material Worlds is an important examination of consumption and the material culture of the emergent modern world"--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Materialism,  Antiquities,  Social archaeology,  Archaeology and history,  Historic sites,  Material culture,  History,  Consumption (Economics),  Social change,  Economic conditions,  Archéologie sociale,  Antiquités,  Archéologie et histoire,  Lieux historiques,  Culture matérielle,  Histoire,  Conditions économiques,  Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies),  Economic history