Résumé
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The dialogic object: Artifacts as agents and processes -- The genuine article -- Glorious obsessions, passionate lovers, and hidden treasures: Collecting, metaphor, and the Romantic ethic -- Objects and their maker: Bricolage of the self -- Fieldwork in the living room: An autoethnographic essay -- Bridewealth revisited -- Melanesian artifacts as cultural markers: A micro-anthropological study -- Part II The built environment and the political ecology of artifacts -- The logic of the mall -- The ideological commodification of culture: Architectural heritage and domestic tourism in Japan -- Take home Canada: Representations of aboriginal peoples as tourist souvenirs -- Objects, texts, and practices: The refrigerator in consumer discourses between the wars -- Communicating democracy: Or shine, perishing republic -- Part III Clothing and adornment: The skin of culture -- Are artifacts texts? Lithuanian woven sashes as social and cosmic transactions -- Feathers and fringes: A semiotic approach to powwow dancers' regalia -- Navajo weaving as sacred metaphor -- What is a t-shirt? Codes, chronotypes, and everyday objects -- Interpreted, circulating, interpreting: The three dimensions of the clothing object -- Psychoanalytic jewels: The domestic drama of Dora and Freud -- Subject Index -- Name Index