Making and Growing

Making and Growing
Author: Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317102584

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts and the latter as organisms, the book calls this distinction into question, examining the implications for our understanding of materials, design and creativity. Grounding their arguments in case studies from different regions and historical periods, the contributors to this volume show how making and growing give rise to co-produced and mutually modifying organisms and artefacts, including human persons. They attend to the properties of materials and to the forms of knowledge and sensory experience involved in these processes, and explore the dynamics of making and undoing, growing and decomposition. The book will be of broad interest to scholars in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, material culture studies, history and sociology.

The Complete Book of Basketry

The Complete Book of Basketry
Author: Dorothy Wright
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 048614254X

Profusely illustrated authoritative classic gives history and geography of baskets, detailed advice on basket design, materials, techniques, care, and step-by-step instructions. 294 illustrations, including 12 in color on the covers.

Needlework Through the Ages

Needlework Through the Ages
Author: Mary Symonds Antrobus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1928
Genre: Embroidery
ISBN:

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Willow Basketry and Sculpture

Willow Basketry and Sculpture
Author: Jo Hammond
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1847976824

Willow weaving is an exciting and rewarding craft for anyone who wants to reconnect with the natural world. This essential book gives all the information and tuition needed to get started and includes projects on sculpture, basketry and folk-art decorations. Thirteen projects are set out in clear and detailed stages, ranging from practical baskets to planters, lifelike scultpures and wreaths. Advice is given on adapting recipes and designing your own baskets.Topics covered: Basic techniques and basketry terms are explained and clearly illustrated, along with selection and preparation of materials; Chapters describe four different basketry forms, each with a different set of structures and skills to learn; Sound, practical tips throughout to smooth your progress and help overcome difficulties. Beautifully illustrated with 160 colour photographs and 17 drawings.

Schnitzel Von Krumm's Basketwork

Schnitzel Von Krumm's Basketwork
Author:
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1742539947

Schnitzel Von Krumm is outraged when his misguided family decides to replace his worn out, beaten up, smelling old basket. He doesn't like his smart new basket and tries to find something else that's cosy and comforting. But nowhere is quite right. Eventually his family get the message. www.hairymaclary.com

The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology

The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
Author: Maja Hojer Bruun
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 809
Release: 2022-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811670846

This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised around some of the most important characteristics of anthropological studies of technology today: the diverse knowledge practices that technologies involve and on which they depend; the communities, collectives, and categories that emerge around technologies; anthropology’s contribution to proliferating debates on ethics, values, and morality in relation to technology; and infrastructures that highlight how all technologies are embedded in broader political economies and socio-historical processes that shape and often reinforce inequality and discrimination while also generating diversity. All chapters share a commitment to human experiences, embodiments, practices, and materialities in the daily lives of those people and institutions involved in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and/or use of particular technologies. Chapters 11 and 31 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The Americana

The Americana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 890
Release: 1923
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

Cartons, Crates and Corrugated Board, Second Edition

Cartons, Crates and Corrugated Board, Second Edition
Author: Diana Twede
Publisher: DEStech Publications, Inc
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2014-12-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1605951358

New expanded second edition with key technical, regulatory and marketing developments from the past 10 years in the packaging industryCovers the materials, processes, and design of virtually all paper and fiberboard packaging for end-products, displays, storage and distributionNew information on European and global standards, selection criteria for paperboard, as well as emerging sustainability initiativesExplains recent tests, measurements and costs with ready-to-use calculations Ten years ago, the first edition of Cartons, Crates and Corrugated Board quickly became the standard reference book for wood- and paper-based packaging. Endorsed by TAPPI and other professional societies and used as a textbook worldwide, the book has now been extensively revised and updated by a team formed by the original authors and two additional authors. While preserving the critical performance and design data of the previous edition, this second expanded edition offers new information on the technologies, tests and regulations impacting the paper and corrugated industries worldwide, with a special focus on Europe and Japan. New information has been added on tests and novel designs for folded cartons, as well as expanded discussions of paperboard selection for specific applications, emerging barrier packaging, food contact and migration, and the dynamics and opportunities of corrugated in distribution systems. Recent developments on recycling and sustainability are also highlighted.