Wild Things
The Material Culture of Everyday Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judy Attfield (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Wild Things (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford International Publishers Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350036048 |
| OpenAlex | W4244180467 |
| ISBN | 9781350036048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 116 |
Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing become so important because the high tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point in objects lives. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings that reflect and assert who we are. Defining design as things with attitude differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary artefacts that are taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to clutter, the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. But beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Materiality (auditing) · Object (grammar) · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Virtuality (gaming) · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Philosophy
Emptying the Wardrobe, Clearing the House
Attachment, Durability and the Environmental Impact of Digital DIY
Beyond Mediation
Popular Culture
Visual Metaphors
Design, Anthropology of
Old devices, new meanings
Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Elizabeth Parker’s Sampler/Diary
Human Creativity During Covid-19 Pandemic
“Doing” Danish Fashion
Material Culture, the Public, and the Extraordinary – “Unloved” Museums Objects as the Tool to Fascinate
It's Personal
Subjectivity in Self-Historicization
An Unknown Radical
From Museum of Decorative Arts to Design Museum
Constructing at Home
Making and Unmaking the Ephemeral Object
Design in the Age of Prosumption
Design Studies—What Is it Good For
Encoding Symbolism
Don’t Be Too Careful of Your Silks and Rags”
“Inside Is Really Lovely…once You Get Into It” Conflicting Narratives of Home ‘Either Side of the Wall’ in Basil Spence’s Claremont Court Housing Scheme
The Casket of Magic
Living in a “Half-Baked Pageant”
Ethnic Objects in Domestic Interiors
Feeling at Home
The Food Package Makes My Hands Dirty Now’
Living Rooms Occupied
Household Inventories Reassessed
Redefining Kitsch
Shaping Popular Taste
Privacy and Gendered Spaces in Arab Gulf Homes
Constance Spry
Spilling Over from the Street
Portraits in the Background of “Nothingness” Sheikh Jabber Burnt House, an Object of Persian Gulf War
Why design history? A multi-national perspective on the state and purpose of the field
Curious energy consumers
Practices of Object Maintenance and Repair
E-readers and the death of the book
Property TV
Memory and trauma
SLOW + Fashion—an Oxymoron—or a Promise for the Future
Thinking and the Art of Furniture
Negotiating the Modern Cross-Class “Model Home”
Historical re-enacting and affective authority
The Materiality of Social Power
Kaleidoscopes, Palimpsests, and Clay
Bahamian Ship Graffiti
Kiwiana goes upmarket
Gender, craft labour and the creative sector
Geographies of retailing and consumption
Containment and Leakage
Research Note
Talking objects
Foodways, Campervans and the Terms of Mobility
The Anthropology and Bioarchaeology of Quotidian Experiences
A biografia cultural de uma camisa
What else? some more ways of thinking and doing 'Children's Geographies
On souvenirs and metonymy
Automobility and National Identity
Material culture after text
The Memorialization of Southern Poor White Men's Labor in Rick Bragg's Memoir Trilogy
Material Matters
Dwelling Culture in Ethnology
Outside In
Stains of Significance
Maternal Loss, Transitional Space and the Uncanny in Alison Marchant's Kingsland Road, London—East
Making Love with Needles
Spousal bereavement in later life
Travel to a place both sad and cute
Nostalgia at Home
The mystical character of commodities
Networks, Narratives, and New Markets
Building an idea
Situating design in the Canadian household furniture industry
Symbolic consumption, signification and the ‘lockout’ of electric cars, 1885–1914
Fashioning furniture
Dad says I'm tied to a shooting star!’ Grounding (research on) British expatriate belonging
Transient craft
Fragments of Modernization
As Fast as Possible Rather Than Well Protected
Fashion, Market and Materiality Along the Seams of Clothing
People are going mad
The Things that Remain
Moving Closer to the Fire
Defusing Dualism
Recycling and Reincarnation
Transformative landscapes
The Turnover Club
Museum Geography
Identity, Mobility, and the Throwaway Society
Muji, Materiality, and Mundane Geographies
Reframing the Chipped Edge
Accommodating Open Plan
"Blurred Boundaries"? Rethinking the Concept of Craft and its Relation to Art and Design
Symbolic creativity in play activity
Playing in virtual spaces
Three materials that transformed Israeli playground design in the 1970s
It became an anchor for stuff I really want to keep
| Unique citing works | 116 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,83 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 115 |