Ebook: Matter, materiality, and modern culture

The Berlin key or how to do words with things / Bruno Latour -- The functions of things: a philosophical perspective on material culture / Beth Preston -- Making culture and weaving the world / Tim Ingold -- Indigenous theories, scientific theories and product histories / Michael Brian Schiffer -- Taking things more seriously: psychological theories of autism and the material-social divide / Emma Williams and Alan Costall -- Pomp and circumstance: archaeology, modernity and the corporatisation of death: early social and political Victorian attitudes towards burial practice / George Nash -- Never mind the relevance? Popular culture for archaeologists / A.J. Schofield -- Always crashing in the same car / Paul Graves-Brown.;Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including: * why do Berliners have such strange door keys? * should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved? * could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket * why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?