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States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives

States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives...

Author: Francesco Duina
ISBN: 9781487502379
Format: Hardback
$145.00

In this volume, twelve leading sociologists and historians leverage the conceptual work of John A. Hall to explore...  Read More >>

Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of...

Author: Aaron Parkhurst ,  Timothy Carroll
ISBN: 9781138314290
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Abigail Williams
ISBN: 9780300240252
Format: Paperback
$39.95

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society: Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications

Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society:...

Author: Maurie Cohen (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) ,  Halina Szejnwald Brown (Clark University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367030216
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance...  Read More >>

Bekenntnisse: Formen Und Formeln

Bekenntnisse: Formen Und Formeln

Author: Peter Schuster ,  Lena Sommer
ISBN: 9783496016151
Format: Hardback
$100.32

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Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities

Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority...

Author: Anna-Mari Almila (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK)
ISBN: 9781784539238
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Veiling in Fashion enters the worlds of women who wear the hijab, both as an aspect of their religious observance...  Read More >>

Sneakers: Fashion, Gender, and Subculture

Sneakers: Fashion, Gender, and Subculture

Author: Yuniya Kawamura
ISBN: 9781350105683
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Hair

A Cultural History of Hair

Author: Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781474232128
Format: Mixed media product
$885.00

The definitive overview of hair in history, this ground-breaking scholarly work presents nearly 3000 years of hair...  Read More >>

Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, Identities

Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values,...

Author: Graham H. Roberts
ISBN: 9781350091795
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology,...  Read More >>

Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age: Quarterly Essay 72

Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age: Quarterly...

Author: Sebastian Smee
ISBN: 9781760640712
Format: Paperback
$27.99

"In the digital age, are our inner lives disappearing? Renowned critic Sebastian Smee examines the role of the inner...  Read More >>

The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature

The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature...

Author: Sarah Brazil
ISBN: 9781580443579
Format: Hardback
$332.61

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The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds

The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation...

Author: Paul Basu (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350085688
Format: Paperback
$69.99

We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of ‘animate’ and ‘inanimate’, ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’,...  Read More >>

In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World

In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World...

Author: Simon Garfield
ISBN: 9781786890771
Format: Hardback
$36.99

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

Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect

Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect

Author: Karen Engle ,  Yoke-Sum Wong
ISBN: 9780773554528
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect

Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect

Author: Karen Engle ,  Yoke-Sum Wong
ISBN: 9780773554511
Format: Hardback
$266.51

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Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America

Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury...

Author: Janet Borgerson ,  Jonathan Schroeder (Rochester Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262536011
Format: Paperback
$39.99

How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury...  Read More >>

Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World

Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World

Author: Hannah Knox ,  Dawn Nafus
ISBN: 9781526127594
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.  Read More >>

Zarina Bhimji: Lead White

Zarina Bhimji: Lead White

Author: Zarina Bhimji ,  Zarina Bhimji
ISBN: 9781912122189
Format: Paperback
$64.66

In Lead White Zarina Bhimji explores the history of Zanzibar. Filtered through Bhimji's artistic vision, national...  Read More >>

Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan

Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan

Author: Eiko Maruko Siniawer
ISBN: 9781501725845
Format: Hardback
$121.61

In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in...  Read More >>

Decoding a Royal Marine Commando: The Militarized Body as Artefact

Decoding a Royal Marine Commando: The Militarized Body...

Author: Mark Burchell
ISBN: 9781472466075
Format: Hardback
$284.00

With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals,...  Read More >>

Lauchheim II.1.: Katalog Der Graber 1-300. Band I: Text, Band II: Tafeln

Lauchheim II.1.: Katalog Der Graber 1-300. Band I: Text,...

Author: Benjamin Hoke ,  Florian Gauss
ISBN: 9783954903603
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Mit rund 1300 Grabern aus dem Zeitraum vom spaten 5. bis zum spaten 6. Jahrhundert ist das Graberfeld von Lauchheim...  Read More >>

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