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    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

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    The Popular Life of Things

    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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