Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic ApproachesPhillip Vannini 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Material Culture Studies and the Sociology and Anthropology of | 15 |
Translation as Material Culture | 27 |
The Old the New | 45 |
Fusing Myth Materiality and Meaning | 59 |
Material Culture and Technoculture as Interaction | 73 |
An Autoethnography | 101 |
VideoBased Studies of the Malleable | 115 |
Cultural Phenomenology and the Material Culture of Mobile Media | 145 |
A Grounded Theory Approach to Engaging Technology on the | 157 |
What Gardens Mean | 171 |
Creating Music in Everyday Life | 193 |
Domestic Medical Sensoring | 211 |
Microwave Ovens and the People | 229 |
List of Contributors | 245 |
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