Doing things with things : the design and use of everyday objects /
Contributor(s): Costall, Alan | Dreier, Ole.
Series: Ethnoscapes.Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2006, (2009)Description: viii, 242 p. : ill., plates ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0754646564 (alk. paper); 9780754646563:; 9780754646563 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Material culture -- Philosophy | Technology -- Social aspects | Knowledge, Theory of | Knowledge, Theory of, in childrenDDC classification: 302Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The case of the recalcitrant prototype / Beth Preston -- Use plans and artefact functions / Pieter E. Vermaas and Wybo Houkes -- Autism and object use / Emma Williams and Linda Kendell-Scott -- Object use in pretend play / Agnes Szokolszky -- Culture, language and canonicality / Kristine Jensen De López -- The cognitive biographies of things / David de Léon -- The woman who used her walking stick as a telephone / Hysse Birgitte Forchhammer -- Politics of things / Estrid Sørensen -- Working with material things / Finn Olesen and Randi Markussen -- Words and things / Steven D. Brown and David Middleton -- Learning to do things with things / Klaus Nielsen -- Urban makings and the formalisation of informal settlements / Gustavo Ribeiro.
Reflecting a growing interest withing the human sciences about how people relate to objects, the contributors to this book mainly focus on everyday objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time.