Material culture books

1265 books were found.

The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture

The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist...

Author: Tad Skotnicki
ISBN: 9781503614635
Format: Hardback
$180.95

What the struggle to make consumption ethical reveals about our world.  Read More >>

Plastic: An Autobiography

Plastic: An Autobiography

Author: Allison Cobb
ISBN: 9781643620381
Format: Paperback
$33.61

How the autobiography of plastic became the autobiography of all of us  Read More >>

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global...

Author: Heike Jenss (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) ,  Dr. Viola Hofmann (Institute of Arts and Material Culture, TU Dortmund University, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350228078
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new...  Read More >>

Encountering Early America

Encountering Early America

Author: Rachel Winchcombe
ISBN: 9781526145772
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

Author: Jane Anderson (New York University, USA) ,  Haidy Geismar (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780367783983
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This volume is at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional...  Read More >>

Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora

Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese...

Author: Cheryl Sim (Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350238060
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural identity are well known but what are the meanings...  Read More >>

Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians

Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews,...

Author: Alicia J. Batten (University of Waterloo, Canada) ,  Professor Kelly Olson (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
ISBN: 9780567684653
Format: Hardback
$300.00

"""Explores methodological issues, materials, and a variety of contexts for the study of dress and religion within...  Read More >>

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise...

Author: Fiona Greenland
ISBN: 9780226757032
Format: Paperback
$62.95

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Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise...

Author: Fiona Greenland
ISBN: 9780226756981
Format: Hardback
$187.95

Through much of its history, Italy was Europe’s heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and...  Read More >>

Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650–1765

Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition,...

Author: Melinda Alliker Rabb (Brown University, Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781108444286
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Examining the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature and theories of cognition, this study...  Read More >>

Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic

Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in...

Author: Claudia Swan
ISBN: 9780691207964
Format: Hardback
$110.00

A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political historyThe...  Read More >>

Design Culture: Objects and Approaches

Design Culture: Objects and Approaches

Author: Guy Julier ,  Mads Nygaard Folkmann
ISBN: 9781350196544
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday...  Read More >>

Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in...

Author: Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350126961
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women’s material...  Read More >>

Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935

Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material...

Author: Leor Halevi
ISBN: 9780231188678
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America...

Author: Associate Professor Peter C. Fine (University of Wyoming, USA)
ISBN: 9781474299572
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on...  Read More >>

Writing Material Culture History

Writing Material Culture History

Author: Dr Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Prof. Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350105225
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture....  Read More >>

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America...

Author: Associate Professor Peter C. Fine (University of Wyoming, USA)
ISBN: 9781474299565
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on...  Read More >>

Writing Material Culture History

Writing Material Culture History

Author: Dr Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Prof. Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350105218
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture....  Read More >>

Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900

Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice...

Author: Alun Withey (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350127845
Format: Hardback
$200.00

"""Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings,...  Read More >>

Der Stoff der Stoffe: Textile Innenräume in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts

Der Stoff der Stoffe: Textile Innenräume in der Literatur...

Author: Kira Jurjens
ISBN: 9783412520847
Format: Paperback
$150.05

The literature of the 19th century is full of fabrics: curtains, upholstery and carpets with their colors, patterns...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology: Towards a Better Understanding of Cultural Encounters and Their Influence on Material Culture

Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology: Towards...

Author: Bettina Bader
ISBN: 9783700187981
Format: Hardback
$282.48

The book examines the connection between identity and material culture, which forms the backbone of archaeology....  Read More >>

Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating: Rethinking Art Practice and Objecthood through Scientific Collections

Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating:...

Author: Edward Juler ,  Alistair Robinson
ISBN: 9781789383119
Format: Paperback
$80.95

Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice,...  Read More >>

Lopodunum VII: Ladenburg Und Der Lobdengau Zwischen 'Limesfall' Und Den Karolingern

Lopodunum VII: Ladenburg Und Der Lobdengau Zwischen...

Author: Roland Prien ,  Christian Witschel
ISBN: 9783954904815
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Die Stadt Ladenburg kann auf ein reiches historisches Erbe zuruckblicken: In der romischen Epoche war Lopodunum...  Read More >>

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