EAN: 9781433103018

MATERIAL CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIF...

Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life  this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity
and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects  which is
often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use
to which they are directed  the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture
of its own - one made of behaviors as simple  and yet as significant  as using a lawnmower  or
decorating one's body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of
the technoculture of everyday life  this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from
the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents  their technological
material practices  their material objects or technics  and their social and material
environment.

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