Materiality and Society draws on debates with historical,philosophical and theoretical discourses that address materiality,from Braudel and Merleau-Ponty to Heidegger and Latour. Thebook opens up new lines of enquiry and makes a convincingcase for the closer study of the interaction between people andthings.

This book is key reading for students and researchers in a varietyof disciplines concerned with social relationships with things -including sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, andtechnology studies.