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008			200811s2020 enk ob 101 0 eng d
020			_a9781350070745
082			_a306.4
100			_aAttfield, Judy, _eauthor. _946028
245		0	_aWild things : _bthe material culture of everyday life / _cJudy Attfield.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aLondon [England] : _bBloomsbury Visual Arts, _c2020
264			_a[London, England] : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2020
300			_aonline resource (264 pages).
500			_aOriginally published: Oxford: Berg, 2000.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's ?lives?. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as ?things with attitude? differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to 'clutter', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment."--
650			_aMaterial culture _946029
650			_aMaterial culture. _946029
655			_aElectronic books.
856			_3Abstract with links to full text _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781350070745?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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