Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Abstract

Aims & scopeThe Approaches to Culture Theory book series focuses on various aspects of analysis, modelling, and theoretical understanding of culture. Culture theory as a set of complementary theories is seen to include and combine the approaches of different sciences, among them semiotics of culture, archaeology, environmental history, ethnology, cultural ecology, cultural and social anthropology, human geography, sociology and the psychology of culture, folklore, media and communication studies. Series editorsKalevi Kull Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu Introduction. Storing and storying the serendipity of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Patrick Laviolette Soft objectsThe natural order is decay: the home as an ephemeral art project . Notes on editors and contributorsMaria Cristache (Maria.Cristache@gcsc.uni-giessen.de) completed a Master's degree in sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Hungary. She is currently a doctoral student at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University, Giessen. Her research interests include material culture, post-socialism, sociology and the anthropology of consumption, including patterns of taste and consumption of domestic objects in communist and post-communist Romania.Carlo A. Cubero (carlo.cubero@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. His research focuses on ethnographic filmmaking methodology, migration, transnationalism and post-colonial identities.Brigitte Glaser (Brigitte.Glaser@phil.uni-goettingen.de) is professor of English literature and cultural studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. She has published two monographs, one on 18th-century fiction and the other on 17th-century autobiographical writing. During the last few years her research focus and publications have been on colonial and postcolonial literature as well as transnational writing. A co-edited volume of essays The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism appeared in 2010.Remo Gramigna (gramigna@ut.ee) is a doctoral student in semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He gained a Master's degree in science of communication at Rome's Sapienza University with a dissertation entitled Culture Jamming: Phenomenology of Creative Destruction (2006). He completed a second Master's degree in semiotics at the University of Tartu with a thesis entitled Augustine on Lying: A Semiotic Analysis (2011). His main research area is the semiotics of lying and deception.Visa Immonen (visa.immonen@helsinki.fi) is a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, and adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of Turku, Finland. He is an archaeologist specialising in the Middle Ages and the Modern period. Meripeni Ngully (meripeni55@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of History, Dimapur Government College, India. She is a doctoral candida...