The Material Culture Reader

Edited by
Victor Buchli

BERG
Oxford New York

Contents
Acknowledgements

vii

List of Figures

ix

Introduction
Victor Buchli

Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation

Introduction
'The Metaphorical Transformations of Wala Canoes'
Christopher Tilley

23
27

The Anthropology of Art

Introduction
'Binding in the Pacific: Between Loops and Knots'
Susanne Kchler

57
63

Visual Culture
Introduction
'Photographic portraiture in Central India in the 1980s and
Christopher Pinney

81
87

Heritage and Cultural Property

Introduction
'The Power of Origins: Questions of Cultural Rights'
Michael Rowlands
Landscape and Politics
Introduction
'Contested Landscapes: Medieval to Present
Barbara Bender

- V

1990s'

105
115

Day'

135
141

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Memory and Conflict

Introduction
'Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory: "Trench Art" and the
Great War
Re-cycled'
Nicholas J. Saunders
Architecture and the Domestic Sphere
Introduction
'Khrushchev, Modernism and the Fight against Petit-bourgeois
Consciousness in the Soviet
Home'
Victor Buchli
Consumption
Introduction
'Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from
Daniel Miller

Index

Trinidad'

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