Materiality and Popular Culture: The Popular Life of Things

Materiality and Popular Culture: The Popular Life of Things
ISBN-10
1317219139
ISBN-13
9781317219132
Category
Social Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2016-08-12
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Authors
Anna Malinowska, Karolina Lebek

Description

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.

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