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Tilley Chris, Keane Webb, Küchler Susanne, Rowlands Mike, Spyer Patricia (ads)Handbook of material cultureLondon ; Thousand oaks ; New Dehli [etc.] : SAGE Publications, 2006, 1 vol. (XVII-556 p.).ISBN 978-1-4129-0039-3Résumé :Material culture studies the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and small-scale societies across the globe.The handbook of material culture provides a single comprehensive review of the field as it is today. These chapters also look to the future and provide a guide to the possibilities for empirical research.The handbook of material culture is divided into five parts :- Part 1 maps material culture studies as a theoritical and conceptual field.- Part 2 examines the relationship between material forms, the human body and the senses.- Part 3 focuses on subject-object relations.- Part 4 considers processes and transformations : things made, things exchanged, things consumed.- Part 5 concerns the contemporary politics and poetics of displaying, representing and conserving material and the manner in which this impacts on notions of heritage, tradition and identity.The handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes a unique and fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human. It will be of interest to all who work in the social and historical sciences, from anthropologists and archaeologists to human geographers and scholars working in heritage, design and cultural studies.Christopher Tilley is professor of material culture in the Department of Anthropology and Institute of Archaeology, University College London.Webb Keane is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology  at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbord.Susanne Küchler is reader in material culture studies in the Department of Anthropology at University College London.Mike Rowlands is professor of Anthropology and material culture at University College London.Patricia Spyer is professor of anthropology at Leiden University.Axe de recherches :Axe transversal : Cultures visuelles