Getting THINGS Right: Mothers and Material Culture

This paper is concerned with the role of material culture in understanding the experience of being a mother. It introduces the study of material culture as taught under the auspices of anthropology. The concept of objectification as the reduction of persons to things is contrasted with the use of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Renaud Beeckmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2011-07-01
Series:Studies in the Maternal
Online Access:https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4117/