Introduction : The culture of the hand / Peter N. Miller -- Design history and the decorative arts / Glenn Adamson -- The materiality of art / Philippe Bordes -- Mutually contextual : materials, bodies and objects / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Museum display, an Algonquian bow, and the ship of Theseus / Ivan Gaskell -- Cultural histories of the material world : whose material world? / Sabine MacCormack -- The history of Facebook / Daniel Miller -- Dirty, pretty things : on archaeology and prehistoric materialities / Lynn Meskell -- Archaeology and design history : a thesis and nine theses / Michael Shanks -- Swelling toads, translation, and the paradox of the concrete / Bernard L. Herman -- Materiality and cultural translation : indigenous arts, colonial exchange, and postcolonial perspectives / Ruth B. Phillips -- The antiquarian, the collector, and the cultural history of the material world / Alain Schnapp -- Mountain as material : landscape inscriptions in China / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. -- Objects and history / Jaâs Elsner -- Beyond representation : things, human and nonhuman / Ittai Weinryb -- Materialities of culture / Bill Brown -- Toward a cultural history of the material world / Juliet Fleming -- Thoughts on cultural histories of the material world / Nancy J. Troy -- The history of science as a cultural history of the material world / Pamela H. Smith -- Reflecting on recipes / Deborah L. Krohn -- Music in the material world : cultural traces and historical cases / Elaine Sisman -- A cultural history of the material world of Islam / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Franz Kugler and the concept of world art history / Horst Bredekamp -- The missing link : "antiquarianism," "material culture," and "cultural science" |