A Material Life

A Material Life
Author: Malcolm Holzman
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781864702118

"This book is by New York architect Malcolm Holzman. It explores his relationships with and thoughts about the various building materials he has used throughout his career. Chapters cover glazed tile, glass, metal, wood, clay, materials appropriated from other sources, sustainable materials, and the use of art in architecture. It is heavily illustrated with examples of the various materials."--Provided by publisher.

The Material Life of Human Beings

The Material Life of Human Beings
Author: Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2002-01-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134637241

In this ground-breaking work, the distinguished anthropological theorist, Michael Brian Schiffer, presents a profound challenge to the social sciences. Through a broad range of examples, he demonstrates how theories of behaviour and communication have too often ignored the fundamental importance of objects in human life. In The Material Life of Human Beings, the author builds upon the premise that the most important feature of human life is not language but the relationships which take place between people and objects. The author shows that artifacts are involved in all modes of human communication - be they visual, auditory or tactile. By creatively folding elements of postmodernist thought into a scientific framework, he creates new concepts and models for understanding and analysing communication and behavior. Challenging established theories within the social sciences, Michael Brian Schiffer offers a reassessment of the centrality of materiality to everyday life.

Miracles and Material Life

Miracles and Material Life
Author: Teren Sevea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108477186

Sevea reveals a universe of miracle-workers in Islamic Malaya, connecting the supernatural to material life, socioeconomic activities and production.

Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life

Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life
Author: Bridie McGreavy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319657119

This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and ecology. The chapters build a multi-layered understanding of material life by gathering scholars from varied theoretical and critical traditions around the common theme of ecology. Emphasizing relationality, connectedness and context, the ecological orientation we build informs both rhetorical theory and environmentalist interventions. Contributors offer practical-theoretical inquiries into several areas - rhetoric’s cosmologies, the trophe, bioregional rhetoric’s, nuclear colonialism, and more - collectively forging new avenues of communication among scholars in environmental communication, communication studies, and rhetoric and composition. This book aims at inspiring and advancing ecological thinking, demonstrating its value for rhetoric and communication as well as for environmental thought and action.

A Material World

A Material World
Author: George W. Boudreau
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Material culture
ISBN: 9780271081151

A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree.

The Material Life of Roman Slaves

The Material Life of Roman Slaves
Author: Sandra R. Joshel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113999140X

The Material Life of Roman Slaves is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the archaeology of Roman slavery. Rather than regarding slaves as irretrievable in archaeological remains, the book takes the archaeological record as a key form of evidence for reconstructing slaves' lives and experiences. Interweaving literature, law, and material evidence, the book searches for ways to see slaves in the various contexts - to make them visible where evidence tells us they were in fact present. Part of this project involves understanding how slaves seem irretrievable in the archaeological record and how they are often actively, if unwittingly, left out of guidebooks and scholarly literature. Individual chapters explore the dichotomy between visibility and invisibility and between appearance and disappearance in four physical and social locations - urban houses, city streets and neighborhoods, workshops, and villas.

Beyond the Body Proper

Beyond the Body Proper
Author: Margaret M. Lock
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2007
Genre: Body, Human
ISBN: 9780822338451

A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.

Materials and the Environment

Materials and the Environment
Author: M. F. Ashby
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0123859719

Addressing the growing global concern for sustainable engineering, this title is devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials.

Material Concerns

Material Concerns
Author: Tim Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 113478760X

Material Concerns offers new perspectives on key environmental issues - pollution prevention, ecological economics, limits to sustainability, consumer behaviour and government policy. The first non-technical introduction to preventative environmental management, Material Concerns offers realistic prospects for improving the quality of life.