The material trajectories of cultural texts: The Bookseller of Kabul and the ahistoric women of Afghanistan.
This article elaborates the usefulness of material culture studies for research on contemporary cultural products by representing books as transformable objects with social lives, the investigation of which is needed to better understand their social dimensions in times of global cultural flows. The...
| Published in: | Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 623 - 639 |
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