num_pages: 432
description: This book grew out of a symposium entitled "material Constructions of Social and Religious Values" held at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 7, 1982. The symposium papers provided the themes and content for a timely and provocative book. "Mirror and Metaphor" examines ways in which space and material culture are consciously and unconsciously ordered by individuals and societies, to reflect and symbolically represent values, sentiments, cultural imagination, and social structure. 18 essays are included, relating to Moveable Material Culture, Fixed Material Culture, Architecture, Space as Place, and Theory. Contributors include Nelson H.H. Graburn, Robert L. Hall, Mark Leone, Paul A. Shackel, Donald H. Rubenstein, Robert Farris Thompson, Joseph Cornet, Anita Volland, Peter Benes, Gordon Bronitsky, Alan Marks, Michael Deal, Daniel W. Ingersoll, James N. Nickell, Henry Glassie, James W. Hamilton, Yvonne Milspaw, Kanika Sircar, John M. Fritz, Susan Kus, James F. Deetz, and Miles Richardson.
language: English
title: Mirror and Metaphor: Material and Social Constructions of Reality
titlecomplete: Mirror and Metaphor: Material and Social Constructions of Reality
publisher: Univ Pr of Amer