A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

Professor Laurie Wilkie, Professor John Chenoweth

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Bloomsbury Academic
02 May 2024

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st century take us?

The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.

Laurie A. Wilkie is Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. John M. Chenoweth, is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.

Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Objects set.

General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Edited by: Professor Laurie Wilkie, Professor John Chenoweth
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 542g
ISBN: 9781350463639
ISBN 10: 1350463639
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 02 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurie A. Wilkie, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, USA John M. Chenoweth, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA