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Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay

Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay

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Earthy Matters is a lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds. The focus of the book is sediments, soils, clay and earth - materials tha...

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Product ID:	9781837721351
Product Form:	Hardback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
Title:	Earthy Matters
Subtitle:	Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay
Authors:	Author: Louise Steel, Luci Attala
Page Count:	242
Subjects:	Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, The environment, Nature and the natural world: general interest, The environment, Natural history
Description:	Earthy Matters is a lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds. The focus of the book is sediments, soils, clay and earth - materials that surround us and have shaped people’s interactions with the environment since even before the first farmers settled in the Near East tilling the earth, building houses from mud and plaster, and making vessels and figurines from clay. This collection questions orthodox understandings that these substances are inert and an infinite resource for humanity, rather to foreground earthy substances in their relationships with humans, and to show how these materials have co-created our social and material worlds. It is a novel and timely reminder for the reader that our lives have always been embedded within the matter of the E(e)arth.
Imprint Name:	University of Wales Press
Publisher Name:	University of Wales Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2024-06-15

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Weight	430 g
Dimensions	143 × 223 × 21 mm