Material culture books

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Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Author: Judy Attfield ,  Daniel Miller
ISBN: 9781350070714
Format: Paperback
$49.99

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the...  Read More >>

Beauty & Art - A Collection of Essays

Beauty & Art - A Collection of Essays

Author: Vernon Lee
ISBN: 9781528718202
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony, this volume contains a fantastic collection of...  Read More >>

A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing - Essays and Excerpts on The Arts

A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing - Essays and...

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781528718141
Format: Paperback
$31.02

A brand new collection of essays and excerpts on the subject the arts written by Oscar Wilde. A fantastic collection...  Read More >>

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia

Author: Haari Luukkanen (Haari Luukkanen) ,  William W. Fitzhugh (William W. Fitzhugh)
ISBN: 9781588344755
Format: Hardback
$100.00

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia is a history and description of bark and skin boat traditions...  Read More >>

Seasonal Sociology

Seasonal Sociology

Author: Tonya Davidson ,  Ondine Park
ISBN: 9781487594084
Format: Paperback
$99.99

Seasonal Sociology offers an engrossing and lively introduction to sociology through the seasons, examining the...  Read More >>

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period

Author: Nicholas L. Kraus
ISBN: 9789004443228
Format: Hardback
$733.92

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period presents an in-depth analysis of scribal education during the period of...  Read More >>

Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History

Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History...

Author: Alexander Adams ,  Frank Furedi
ISBN: 9781788360425
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This book surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public culture. It is one...  Read More >>

Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need

Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need

Author: Bruce Hood
ISBN: 9780141991290
Format: Paperback
$24.99

How ownership came to control us - and what we can do about it You may not believe it, but there is a link between...  Read More >>

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688–1832

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British...

Author: Louisiane Ferlier ,  Benedicte Miyamoto
ISBN: 9789004433663
Format: Hardback
$448.80

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the authority of print in all its shapes in the British...  Read More >>

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence...

Author: Dan Hicks
ISBN: 9780745341767
Format: Hardback
$64.69

A call for western museums to wash their hands of colonial blood  Read More >>

Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre

Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture,...

Author: Therí Pickens
ISBN: 9780367593179
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set...  Read More >>

Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven

Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things...

Author: Timothy Carroll (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780367590550
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing from and building upon Gell’s work, Carroll comprehensively explores the uses and purposes of material culture...  Read More >>

Winston Churchill: A Life in the News

Winston Churchill: A Life in the News

Author: Richard Toye (Professor of Modern History, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780198803980
Format: Hardback
$60.95

A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and...  Read More >>

A Material History of the Bible, England 1200-1553

A Material History of the Bible, England 1200-1553

Author: Eyal Poleg (Senior Lecturer in Material History, Senior Lecturer in Material History, Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780197266717
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This study of hundreds of manuscripts and early printed books reveals that the Bible has never been an abstract...  Read More >>

Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects

Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural...

Author: Edward Posnett
ISBN: 9781784703028
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In this beguiling work Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring seven wonders...  Read More >>

Trierer Zeitschrift 81 2018: Archaologie Und Kunst Des Trierer Landes Und Seiner Nachbargebiete. Adolf Neyses Zum 90. Geburtstag Und Alfred Haffner Zum 80. Geburtstag Gewidmet

Trierer Zeitschrift 81 2018: Archaologie Und Kunst Des...

Author: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag
ISBN: 9783954904969
Format: Hardback
$190.08

Aus dem InhaltJurgen Merten / Kristina Schulz - Bibliographie Adolf NeysesJurgen Merten / Kristina Schulz - Bibliographie...  Read More >>

Die Apostelkanne Und Das Tafelsilber Im Hortfund Von 1628 - Trierer Silberschatze Des 5. Jahrhunderts

Die Apostelkanne Und Das Tafelsilber Im Hortfund Von...

Author: Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann ,  Max Martin
ISBN: 9783954904938
Format: Hardback
$388.08

English summary: Two extraordinary late Roman silver finds were discovered in the same area close to the bank of...  Read More >>

Der Romische Gutshof Und Das Graberfeld Bei Losnich: Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich. Ein Beitrag Zur Rekonstruktion Landlicher Besiedlung Im Trevererland

Der Romische Gutshof Und Das Graberfeld Bei Losnich:...

Author: Anastasia Moraitis
ISBN: 9783954904877
Format: Hardback
$142.56

Bereits in vorromischer Zeit hatten sich in und um Losnich - nur ca. 30 km von Traben-Trarbach entfernt - Menschen...  Read More >>

Building the French Empire, 1600–1800: Colonialism and Material Culture

Building the French Empire, 1600–1800: Colonialism and...

Author: Benjamin Steiner
ISBN: 9781526143235
Format: Hardback
$183.99

How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local...  Read More >>

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