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| Preface | |
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| Theoretical Approaches to Material Culture | |
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| Making Sense of Material Culture | |
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| Defining Material Culture | |
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| "The Blue Carbuncle" as a Model for the Study of Material Culture | |
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| On the Nature of Theory | |
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| Nietzsche and Perspectivism | |
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| The Rashomon Problem | |
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| A Freudian Psychoanalytic Approach | |
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| Artifacts and the Unconscious: Freud's Topographic Hypothesis | |
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| Id, Ego and Superego: Freud's Structural Hypothesis | |
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| Symbolic Aspects of Material Culture | |
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| Sexual Development and Material Culture | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Semiotic Approaches to Material Culture | |
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| Saussure on Signs | |
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| Problems with Interpreting Signs | |
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| Peirce on Signs | |
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| On the Veracity of Signs | |
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| Denotation and Connotation | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Sociological Analysis of Material Culture | |
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| Sociological Theory | |
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| Functionalism | |
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| Taste Cultures | |
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| Uses and Gratifications Provided by Artifacts | |
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| Race, Ethnicity and Gender | |
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| Status | |
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| Role | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Economic Theory, Marxism, and Material Culture | |
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| Needs Versus Desires: Traveling Light and Arriving Heavy | |
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| Marxist Theory and Alienation | |
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| Class Conflict | |
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| The Role of Advertising | |
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| Thorstein Veblen and Conspicuous Consumption | |
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| Max Weber and Calvinist-Protestant Thought | |
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| Georg Simmel on Fashion | |
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| Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |
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| Authenticity and Postmodern Thought | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Cultural Theory and Material Culture | |
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| Culture | |
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| Clotaire Rapaille and Culture Codes | |
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| Mary Douglas and Grid-Group Theory | |
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| Myth and Material Culture | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Archaeological Theory and Material Culture | |
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| The Cultural History and Anthropological Archaeology Approaches | |
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| Processual Theory | |
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| Post-Processual Theory | |
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| Context | |
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| The Cha&ihat;ne Op�ratoire | |
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| Behavioral or Transformational Archaeology | |
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| Cognitive Archaeology | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Applications | |
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| Authenticity Paintings of Prince Henry | |
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| Context Mirrors | |
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| Exchange Kula Objects | |
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| Style Blue Jeans | |
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| Technology Cell Phones | |
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| Globalization Coca-Cola | |
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| Gender Cosmetics | |
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| Identity Air Jordans | |
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| Transformation Books | |
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| Reality Digital Cameras | |
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| Religion Rangda Masks | |
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| Shape Milk Cartons | |
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| Representation The Tokyo Subway System | |
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| Material Culture Games | |
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| The Artifacts Inventory Game | |
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| The Time Capsule Game | |
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| Disciplinary Perspectives on Objects | |
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| The Grid-Group Theory and Objects Game | |
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| The Objects and Personal Identity Game | |
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| The Signifying Objects Game | |
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| Disciplinary Writing Exercise | |
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| The Analyzing Artifact Advertisements Game | |
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| The Id/Ego/Superego Objects Game | |
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| The Functions of Objects Game | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |