The matter of history: how things create the past
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in environment and historyPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University press 2017Description: 346 pISBN: 9781107134171 (Hardback : alk. paper); 9781107592704 (Paperback)Subject(s): History | Materialism | Human ecologyDDC classification: 901 Summary: "New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop a bold new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organism and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural."--Provided by publisher.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop a bold new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organism and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural."--Provided by publisher.
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