Researching material culture
By: edited by Susan Pearce.
Contributors: Pearce, Susan M.; University of Leicester. School of Archaeological Studies
Series: Leicester archaeology monographs -- 8; Material Culture Research Group occasional papers -- no. 1; Occasional papers (University of Leicester. Material Culture Research Group) -- no. 1.
Publisher: School of the Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Material culture -- Research
Description: Researching Material Culture: Introduction (Susan Pearce) Materiality and Discourse: Archaeological and Theoretical Objects (Shaun Hides) Structures of Power or Structures of Convenience? Exploiting the Material Past in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Neil Christie and Roger Kipling) Art or Material Culture? Understanding Approaches to Roman Provincial Art (Sarah Scott) The Built Environment as Evidence for Early Industrialisation (Marilyn Palmer) Material as Style or Material as History? Charles Tatham and the Transformation of the Object (Susan Pearce) Gendered Exhibitionism (Deirdre O'Sullivan) Rubbish Counts: Quantifying Portable Material Culture in Roman Britain (Nick Cooper) In the Popular Gaze: Museums in the Movies (Mark Hall)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.