Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches

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• 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 ownone made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating ones 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 examinefrom the participants perspectivethe interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.