Victor Buchli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1554645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Buchli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchli |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHLI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An Archaeology of Socialism
This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist masterpiece, the Narkomfin Communal House, employed classic Marxist understandings of material culture in an effort to overturn capitalist and patriarchal social structures. Through the edif…
Queering the Interior
The Material Culture Reader
1 Introduction. Victor Buchli 2 Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation Chris Tilley Introduction 'The Metaphorical Transformations of Wala Canoes' 3 The Anthropology of Art. Susanne Kchler Introduction 'Binding in the Pacific: Between Loops and Knots' 4 Visual Culture. Chris Pinney Introduction 'Photographic portraiture in Central India in the 1980s and 1990s' 5 Heritage and Cultural Property. Mike Rowlands Introduction 'The Power of Origins: Q…
Cultural History of Twin Beds
Title Description: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970. Modern preconceptions of the twin bed revolve around their u…
Material Register, Surface, and Form at Çatalhöyük
The tradition of research on the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük has emphasized the importance of sedentism in relation to the rise of the domestic as the key locus for social and ritual life. The settlement itself is referred to in terms of an agglomeration of “houses” with the elicitations of settled domestic life and individual households based on common kin affiliation that the notion of the “house” entails. In fact it is the notion of “ho…
Interpreting Archaeology
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value …
Households and 'Home Cultures
The domestic sphere or 'home cultures' as the term is used here is the location of many disciplinary investigations into the home. It is in the domestic sphere that one investigates the key elements of the human condition. This article's essence happens to be households and home cultures. It is where family, gender, and the nature of the individual are understood. It is also where the basic elements of cosmology and religious life and the element…
Presencing the Im-Material
The prototype
This article explores the social effects and materiality of the prototype. Three diverse cultural contexts and prototyping technologies are examined: the early Christian prototype in the Byzantine iconographic tradition; the rise of rapid prototyping in 20th-century industry; and the emergence of rapid manufacturing in the 21st century. Despite evident technological differences and complexities and divergent cultural contexts, the author argues t…
Prologue to Uses of Chemical Residues to Make Statements About Human Activities
La culture matérielle, la numérisation et le problème de l'artefact1
La culture matérielle, la numérisation et le problème de l’artefact. Les récentes innovations dans le domaine de la numérisation de la fabrication d’objets posent de nouvelles questions concernant notre conception de la nature de l’artefact. Elles posent également la question de l’élargissement de notre conception de la culture matérielle. Cet article a pour objet d’examiner l’émergence de la Fabrication rapide dans le domaine du Prototypage rapi…
The Destruction of Gemütlichkeit ? Programmatic Exhibitions on Domestic Living in the 20th Century
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, February 10 to May 28 2007
The archaeology of alienation
In July of 1997 we were allowed two days’ access to a recently abandoned council house; the project started from an idea of exploring the theme of alienation from a dual perspective of the material culture of a marginalised and socially disenfranchised person or family in the late twentieth century and the process of marginalisation and alienation that we, as archaeologists, effect on the people we study – whether now or two thousand years ago. T…
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * landfills * miner strikes * college fraternities * an abandoned council ho…
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * landfills * miner strikes * college fraternities * an abandoned council ho…
Interpreting Archaeology
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value …
An Archaeology of Socialism
This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist masterpiece, the Narkomfin Communal House, employed classic Marxist understandings of material culture in an effort to overturn capitalist and patriarchal social structures. Through the edif…
The prototype
This article explores the social effects and materiality of the prototype. Three diverse cultural contexts and prototyping technologies are examined: the early Christian prototype in the Byzantine iconographic tradition; the rise of rapid prototyping in 20th-century industry; and the emergence of rapid manufacturing in the 21st century. Despite evident technological differences and complexities and divergent cultural contexts, the author argues t…
Prologue to Uses of Chemical Residues to Make Statements About Human Activities
La culture matérielle, la numérisation et le problème de l'artefact1
La culture matérielle, la numérisation et le problème de l’artefact. Les récentes innovations dans le domaine de la numérisation de la fabrication d’objets posent de nouvelles questions concernant notre conception de la nature de l’artefact. Elles posent également la question de l’élargissement de notre conception de la culture matérielle. Cet article a pour objet d’examiner l’émergence de la Fabrication rapide dans le domaine du Prototypage rapi…
The archaeology of alienation
In July of 1997 we were allowed two days’ access to a recently abandoned council house; the project started from an idea of exploring the theme of alienation from a dual perspective of the material culture of a marginalised and socially disenfranchised person or family in the late twentieth century and the process of marginalisation and alienation that we, as archaeologists, effect on the people we study – whether now or two thousand years ago. T…
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * landfills * miner strikes * college fraternities * an abandoned council ho…
The Destruction of Gemütlichkeit ? Programmatic Exhibitions on Domestic Living in the 20th Century
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, February 10 to May 28 2007
La culture matérielle, la numérisation et le problème de l'artefact1
La culture matérielle, la numérisation et le problème de l’artefact. Les récentes innovations dans le domaine de la numérisation de la fabrication d’objets posent de nouvelles questions concernant notre conception de la nature de l’artefact. Elles posent également la question de l’élargissement de notre conception de la culture matérielle. Cet article a pour objet d’examiner l’émergence de la Fabrication rapide dans le domaine du Prototypage rapi…
Presencing the Im-Material
The prototype
This article explores the social effects and materiality of the prototype. Three diverse cultural contexts and prototyping technologies are examined: the early Christian prototype in the Byzantine iconographic tradition; the rise of rapid prototyping in 20th-century industry; and the emergence of rapid manufacturing in the 21st century. Despite evident technological differences and complexities and divergent cultural contexts, the author argues t…
Prologue to Uses of Chemical Residues to Make Statements About Human Activities
Households and 'Home Cultures
The domestic sphere or 'home cultures' as the term is used here is the location of many disciplinary investigations into the home. It is in the domestic sphere that one investigates the key elements of the human condition. This article's essence happens to be households and home cultures. It is where family, gender, and the nature of the individual are understood. It is also where the basic elements of cosmology and religious life and the element…
Interpreting Archaeology
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value …
Material Register, Surface, and Form at Çatalhöyük
The tradition of research on the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük has emphasized the importance of sedentism in relation to the rise of the domestic as the key locus for social and ritual life. The settlement itself is referred to in terms of an agglomeration of “houses” with the elicitations of settled domestic life and individual households based on common kin affiliation that the notion of the “house” entails. In fact it is the notion of “ho…
Cultural History of Twin Beds
Title Description: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970. Modern preconceptions of the twin bed revolve around their u…
Queering the Interior
The Material Culture Reader
1 Introduction. Victor Buchli 2 Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation Chris Tilley Introduction 'The Metaphorical Transformations of Wala Canoes' 3 The Anthropology of Art. Susanne Kchler Introduction 'Binding in the Pacific: Between Loops and Knots' 4 Visual Culture. Chris Pinney Introduction 'Photographic portraiture in Central India in the 1980s and 1990s' 5 Heritage and Cultural Property. Mike Rowlands Introduction 'The Power of Origins: Q…
An Archaeology of Socialism
This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist masterpiece, the Narkomfin Communal House, employed classic Marxist understandings of material culture in an effort to overturn capitalist and patriarchal social structures. Through the edif…
History (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Art (4 works)