Doing Things With Things
Subtitle: The Design And Use of Everyday Objects (Ethnoscapes) (Ethnoscapes) (Ethnoscapes)
Contributors: Alan Costall (Editor); Ole Dreier (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780754646563
Subjects: Anthropology; Psychology; Regional & Area Planning; Sociology - General; Philosophy; Architecture; Sociology; Material culture; Planning
First sentence: It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and the social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things' (Joerges, 1988, p. 220).