Daniel Miller's Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter

Introduction to Materials Culture: Why is it important, Daniel Miller explains the book as part of the second phase of material culture research development. The first stage is recognition of writers such as App adurai, Bourdieu, Miller. In other words, material culture is important and worthy of research. The second stage is the argument proposed in this book. Focusing on "the diversity of the material world" is more important than simplifying the material world into a symbol of "real" social processes. Fixed.

Daniel Miller is a pioneer of the University College London (UCL) team and is working on how material perspectives are related to consumer surveys. If many of the previous consumption methods take anti-material cultural stance and consider the importance as a threat to social, environmental, and mental and moral values, Miller suggests the opposite approach. did. According to Miller (2006, p. 347), "Materials culture studies work through the specialty of material objects and ultimately create a deeper understanding of human specialty, which is inseparable from the importance of human beings It's in relationship. "

Families are the environment in which some of the most important things happen (see Miller, 2001). For our purposes, in the anthropological approach to material culture research, the emergence of family as an ethnographic magazine analysis site provides an influential trajectory. Early work by Daniel Miller shows how family making and decoration produce resistance to identity and form (Miller, 1988). Recent studies have shown how families become emotional and practical environments in everyday life as materials (Miller, 2001, 2008) and sensory (Pink, 2004). This early 2000s literature also highlights how human beings and substance entities, identities and empowerment are expressed through routine housekeeping activities, materiality, and family intangible structures (eg Miller , 2001; Pink, 2004). Frequently involved in gender issues (eg Casey and Martens, 2007; Clarke, 2001; Pink, 2004, 2005, 2007a, 2007b)

Current objectives of Materials Culture Research, Interdisciplinary, Department of Anthropology at University College London in London (1999, 1991, Tilley, 1995, Miller, 1995, Pinney, 2004, Kuchler, 2001) I am conducting research through magazines. Develop materialist theories of Hegelianism, Marxism, and Bourdiol to eliminate foreign objects and find a contact model with a more valuable world. Anthropology is a study of social relations, material culture is the subject of research. As Mr. Simmel stated, objects are closely related to people's behavior and social processes ... "There is no human value in addition to objectiveization of material forms" (Miller, 1998b: 19 ). This rationalization can also be extended to rationalizing the existence of objects and discussing object ontologies (Gell, 1998: Latour, 1993).