Treating things as social facts: metamorphoses in the studies about material culture
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2010v15n2p231Keywords:
Material Culture, Anthropology, Objects, CommodityAbstract
In this article, we intend to analyze how material culture has been approached in Anthropology in some moments in its history. We discuss contemporary proposals, most of which came up from studies about consumption. Finally, we suggest their potential contributions and discuss how the transformation in the anthropological approach of material culture brings innovation and incites us to rethink our practices.Downloads
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BAUDRILLARD, Jean. La societé de consommation. Paris: Folio, 1996.
BAUDRILLARD, Jean. O sistema dos objetos. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2002.
BESTOR, Theodore C. Supply-side sushi: commodity, market, and the global city. American anthropology, Washington, v. 103, n. 1, p. 76-95, mar. 2001.
BONNOT, Thierry. La vie des objets. Paris: Éditions MSH, 2002.
BOURDIEU, Pierre. A dominação masculina. Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasil, 1999.
BOURDIEU, Pierre. The berber house, or the World Reversed. Social Science Information, London, v. 9, n. 2, p. 151-170, apr. 1970.
CAMPBELL, Colin. A Ética Romantica e o Espírito do Consumismo Moderno. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2001.
CAMPBELL, Colin. The craft consumer. Journal of Consumer Culture, London, v. 5, n. 1, p. 23-42, 2005.
CLIFFORD, James. Objects and selves: an afterword. In: STOCKING JUNIOR, George W. Objects and others: essays on museums and material culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
DOUGLAS, Mary; ISHERWOOD, Baron. O mundo dos bens: para uma antropologia do consumo. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. UFRJ, 2004.
FABIAN, Johannes. The ethnic artefact and the ethnographic object. L’Homme, Paris, n. 170, apr./june. 2004.
FOSTER, Robert J. Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion. In: TILLEY, Chris (ed.) et. al. The Sage Handbook of Material Culture. London: Sage, 2006, p. 285-302.
GEARY, Patrik. Sacred Commodities: the circulation of medieval relics. In: APPADURAI, Arjun (ed.). The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press. 2006, p. 3-63.
GELL, Alfred. Art and Agency. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
HUGHES, Alex. Global Commodity Networks, ethnical trade and governmenbility. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, London, v. 26, n. 4, p. 390-406, dec. 2001.
KEANE, Webb. Signs are not the garbo of meaning: on the social analysis of material things. In: MILLER, Daniel (org.). Materiality. London: Duke University Press, 2005.
KOPYTOFF, Igor. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process. In: APPADURAI, Arjun. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2006, p. 64-94.
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LEITÃO, Débora K. Nós, os outros: construção do exótico e consumo de moda brasileira na França. Horizontes Antropológicos, Porto Alegre, v. 13, n. 28, p. 203-233. july/ dec. 2007b.
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McCRACKEN, Grant. Cultura & Consumo. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad, 2003.
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MILLER, Daniel. Material Culture and Mass Consumption. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
MILLER, Daniel. Materiality: an introduction. In: MILLER, Daniel (org.). Materiality. Londres: Duke University Press, 2005.
MORGAN, Lewis. A Sociedade Primitiva. 3. ed. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1974.
PINHEIRO-MACHADO, Rosana. Made in China: produção e circulação de mercadorias no circuito China – Paraguai – Brasil. 2009. 332 p. Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia Social) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2009.
SAHLINS, Marshall. O Pessimismo Sentimental e a Experiência Etnográfica: Por que a cultura não é um objeto em via de extinção? Mana, v. 3, n. 2, p. 103-150, 1997.
TILLEY, Chris. Introduction. In: TILLEY, Chris et al. (ed.). Handbook of Material Culture. London: Sage, 2006.
TURGEON, Laurier. La mémoire de la culture mattérielle et la culture matérielle de la mémoire. In: TURGEON, Laurier; DEBRAY, Octave. Objets & Memóire. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Laval, 2007.
ZIEGLER, Catherine. Favored Flowers. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
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LEITÃO, Débora Krischke; PINHEIRO-MACHADO, Rosana. Treating things as social facts: metamorphoses in the studies about material culture. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 15, n. 2, p. 231–247, 2010. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2010v15n2p231. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/8237. Acesso em: 2 oct. 2024.
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