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material culture today  

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  • Material cultural studies presume that objects contain traces of their cultural importance. Objects thus become central to accounts of socially meaningful use and waste, because the materials of culture are remnants of consumption. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Material Culture Today]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-K4BF7FMW-Z

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