Cultural Histories of the Material World

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Introduction: The Culture of the Hand – Peter N. Miller
Part 1. Art’s Challenge
	Chapter One – Design History and the Decorative Arts – Glenn Adamson
	Chapter Two – The Materiality of Art – Philippe Bordes
Part 2. The Place of the Material
	Chapter Three – Mutually Contextual: Materials, Bodies, and Objects – Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
	Chapter Four – Museum Display, an Algonquian Bow, and the Ship of Theseus – Ivan Gaskell
	Chapter Five – Cultural Histories of the Material World: Whose Material World? – Sabine MacCormack
	Chapter Six – The History of Facebook – Daniel Miller
	Chapter Seven – Dirty, Pretty Things: On Archaeology and Prehistoric Materialities – Lynn Meskell
	Chapter Eight – Archaeology and Design History: A Thesis and Nine Theses – Michael Shanks
Part 3. Experience and Material
	Chapter Nine – Swelling Toads, Translation, and the Paradox of the Concrete – Bernard L. Herman
	Chapter Ten – Materiality and Cultural Translation: Indigenous Arts, Colonial Exchange, and Postcolonial Perspectives – Ruth B. Phillips
	Chapter Eleven – The Antiquarian, the Collector, and the Cultural History of the Material World – Alain Schnapp
	Chapter Twelve – Mountain as Material: Landscape Inscriptions in China – Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
	Chapter Thirteen – Objects and History – Jaś Elsner
	Chapter Fourteen – Beyond Representation: Things—Human and Nonhuman – Ittai Weinryb
	Chapter Fifteen – Materialities of Culture – Bill Brown
Part 4. Future Histories
	Chapter Sixteen: Toward a Cultural History of the Material World – Juliet Fleming
	Chapter Seventeen: Thoughts on Cultural Histories of the Material World – Nancy J. Troy
	Chapter Eighteen – The History of Science as a Cultural History of the Material World – Pamela H. Smith
	Chapter Nineteen – Reflecting on Recipes – Deborah L. Krohn
	Chapter Twenty: Music in the Material World: Cultural Traces and Historical Cases – Elaine Sisman
	Chapter Twenty-One: A Cultural History of the Material World of Islam – Jonathan M. Bloom
	Twenty-Two - Franz Kugler and the Concept of World Art History – Horst Bredekamp
	Chapter Twenty-Three – The Missing Link: “Antiquarianism,”“Material Culture,” and “Cultural Science” in the Work of G. F. Klemm – Peter N. Miller
Contributors
Index