The Material Culture Reader

Edited by
Victor Buchli

Oxford • New York

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Acknowledgements vii

List of Figures ix

1 Introduction 1
Victor Buchli

2 Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation

Introduction 23
'The Metaphorical Transformations of Wala Canoes' 27
Christopher Tilley

3 The Anthropology of Art

Introduction 57
'Binding in the Pacific: Between Loops and Knots' 63
Susanne Küchler

4 Visual Culture
Introduction 81
'Photographic portraiture in Central India in the 1980s and 1990s' 87
Christopher Pinney

5 Heritage and Cultural Property

Introduction 105
'The Power of Origins: Questions of Cultural Rights' 115
Michael Rowlands

6 Landscape and Politics

Introduction 135
'Contested Landscapes: Medieval to Present Day' 141
Barbara Bender

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7 Memory and Conflict

Introduction 175
'Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory: "Trench Art" and the
Great War Re-cycled' 181
Nicholas J. Saunders

8 Architecture and the Domestic Sphere

Introduction 207
'Khrushchev, Modernism and the Fight against Petit-bourgeois
Consciousness in the Soviet Home' 215
Victor Buchli

9 Consumption
Introduction 237
'Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad' 245
Daniel Miller

Index 265

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