Table of Contents

1: Dan Hicks & Mary C. Beaudry: Introduction
I. Disciplinary Perspectives
2: Dan Hicks: The Material-Cultural Turn
3: Ian Cook & Divya Tolia-Kelly: Material Geographies
4: Robert St George: Folklife
5: Ann Stahl: Material Histories
6: John Law: The Materials of STS
II. Material Practices
7: Andrew Pickering: Material Culture and the Dance of Agency
8: Michael Dietler: Consumption
9: Gavin Lucas: Fieldwork and Collecting
10: Hirokazu Miyazaki: Gifts and Exchange
11: Howard Morphy: Art as Action, Art as Evidence
12: Rosemary Joyce with Joshua Pollard: Archaeological Assemblages and Practices of Deposition
III. Objects and Humans
13: Kacy L. Hollenback & Michael B. Schiffer: Technology ande Material Life
14: Andy Jones & Nicole Boivin: The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Material Agency
15: Chris Fowler: `Personhood' and Identity
16: Zoe Crossland: Materiality and Embodiment
17: Tatyana Hulme: Material Culture in Primates
IV. Landscapes and the Built Environment
18: Lesley Head: Cultural Landscapes
19: Sarah Whatmore & Steve Hinchliffe: Ecological Landscapes
20: Roland Fletcher: Urban Materialities: Meaning, Magnitude, Friction, and Outcomes
21: Carl Lounsbury: Architecture and Cultural History
22: Victor Buchli: Households and `Home Cultures'
V. Studying Particular Things
23: Rodney Harrison: Stone Tools
24: Chandra Mukerji: The Landscape Garden as Material Culture: Lessons from France
25: Douglass W. Bailey & Lesley McFadyen: Built Objects
26: Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris & Peter Tomkins: Ceramics (as Containers)
27: Peter J. Pels: Magical Things: On Fetishes, Commodities, and Computers
Nigel Thrift: Afterword: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be: Thinking Through Material Thinking as Placing and Arrangement

About the Author

Dan Hicks is Lecturer & Curator in Archaeology, School of Archaeology & Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Mary C. Beaudry is Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology, Boston University.

Reviews

The extent and ambition of material-culture studies is marvellously revealed in this new handbook ... a wonderfully rich resource ... this really is an impressive collection.
*William Whyte, English Historical Review*

presents an impressive variety of ideas, and the conceptual implications of combining landscape archaeology, cultural primatology, horticultural archaeology, and material geographies with what archaeologists have traditionally thought of as material culture is deeply thought provoking and will have tremendous results within the field.
*Danika Parikh, Archaeological Review from Cambridge*