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"The contributors pay serious attention to older and newer theoretical perspectives from a wide variety of sources, including literary currents of the 1990's. Architects, economists, and historians are largely welcome as visitors to this handbook."
Understanding material culture and it's importance is an essential requirement for all Archaeologists. This handbook provides the detail needed in an easy to digest format.
A very interesting Anthropological book with some excellent thought provoking chapters on material culture. With the exception of the chapter on food this book does not relate to public health and this is the reason that it was not adopted.
This Handbook of Material Culture is an excellent source book for a number of topics related to Museums and Museology and contains seminal texts in analysing the objects contained in ethnographic collections today and historically. I will be adopting it in my teaching and will recommend it to students adding it to my course handbooks and reading lists.
A great additional book for my class, comprehensive, easy to read at the undergrad level (at least some chapters); chapters on theoretical perspectives give a useful overview of issues and are very relevant.
I had misunderstood the content of this book - it's not strictly relevant to the course I deliver. However I think it's an extremely well-researched text that would be useful to anyone seeking an overview of material culture in society today. I particularly like the way the authors draw on cultures and practices from across the world, and the organisation of the work into 5 parts enables the reader to hone in on what is most relevant to their study at that time.
