Material culture books

This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-both...  Read More >>

English summary: The Hohlenstein in the Lonetal (Lone valley) is part of a group of caves in the Swabian Alb, in...  Read More >>

"Welche Aufschlüsse ermöglichen Forschungen, die die Verbindungen zwischen Objekten sowie zwischen Objekten und...  Read More >>

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Is time out of joint? For the past two centuries, the dominant Western time regime has been future-oriented and...  Read More >>

This book challenges the common evolutionary model of development from the bicycle to the motorcycle. It examines...  Read More >>

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world - sand - and the crucial role it plays...  Read More >>

Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political...  Read More >>

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to give us a new political...  Read More >>

This cultural history seeks to deepen and contextualize knowledge about digital activist journalism by training...  Read More >>

Through case studies focussing on the work of an international range of scholars, Fashion Studies examines how ethnographic...  Read More >>

Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

This cultural history seeks to deepen and contextualize knowledge about digital activist journalism by training...  Read More >>

In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural...  Read More >>

In this volume, contributors focus on how professionals organize their embodied conduct with material objects. The...  Read More >>

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments to take place in Poland over the last one hundred...  Read More >>

A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of...  Read More >>

In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between...  Read More >>

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Oslo...  Read More >>

Miniaturization is the creation of small objects that resemble larger ones, usually but not always for purposes...  Read More >>

Miniaturization is the creation of small objects that resemble larger ones, usually but not always for purposes...  Read More >>

This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century,...  Read More >>

Traces the progressive redrawing of the boundaries between human beings and things as represented in cinema through...  Read More >>

Mit rund 1300 Grabern aus dem Zeitraum vom spaten 5. bis zum spaten 7. Jahrhundert ist das Graberfeld von Lauchheim...  Read More >>

From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations...  Read More >>