Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World

Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World

Author: Hannah Knox ,  Dawn Nafus
ISBN: 9781526134974
Format: Paperback
$56.99

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

British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940

British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940...

Author: Dr Rosie Dias (Associate Professor in the History of Art, University of Warwick, UK) ,  Dr Kate Smith (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781501332159
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors...  Read More >>

Beyond Chinoiserie: Artistic Exchange between China and the West during the Late Qing Dynasty (1796-1911)

Beyond Chinoiserie: Artistic Exchange between China...

Author: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu ,  Jennifer Milam
ISBN: 9789004387829
Format: Hardback
$285.12

In Beyond Chinoiserie, historians of art, literature, and material culture address artistic relations between China...  Read More >>

Fake

Fake

Author: Kati Stevens (Freelance writer, USA)
ISBN: 9781501338137
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The...  Read More >>

Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World

Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital...

Author: Johan Redström (Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden) ,  Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350004351
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Explores the changing role and nature of 'things' in the digital age.  Read More >>

Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender

Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender...

Author: Rachel Lifter
ISBN: 9781784533830
Format: Hardback
$186.30

Subcultures meet the mainstream in modern indie music & popular fashion  Read More >>

Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture

Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture

Author: Yuko Minowa ,  Russell W. Belk
ISBN: 9781138500709
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book addresses gift giving among consumers attempting to express and construct romantic love. It lies at the...  Read More >>

Barns of the Midwest

Barns of the Midwest

Author: Allen G. Noble ,  Hubert G. H. Wilhelm
ISBN: 9780821423424
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Originally published in 1995, editors Noble and Wilhelm gathered experts in history and architecture to write on...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice

The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice...

Author: Angela M. Labrador (Managing Partner, Managing Partner, Coherit Associates) ,  Neil Asher Silberman (Managing Partner, Managing Partner, Coherit Associates)
ISBN: 9780190676315
Format: Hardback
$314.00

The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians,...  Read More >>

Die Konstanzer Marktstatte Im Mittelalter Und in Der Neuzeit

Die Konstanzer Marktstatte Im Mittelalter Und in Der...

Author: Marianne Dumitrache
ISBN: 9783954902934
Format: Hardback
$274.56

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Das Romische Graberfeld Von Stettfeld II.: Katalog Der Graber Und Ubrigen Befunde

Das Romische Graberfeld Von Stettfeld II.: Katalog Der...

Author: Peter Knotzele
ISBN: 9783954903566
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Von 1979 bis 1981 wurde in Stettfeld (Gem. Ubstadt-Weiher, Lkr. Karlsruhe) eines der grossten romischen Graberfelder...  Read More >>

Mr Bridges' Enlightenment Machine: Forty Years on Tour in Georgian Britain

Mr Bridges' Enlightenment Machine: Forty Years on Tour...

Author: Barb Drummond
ISBN: 9781912829019
Format: Paperback
$43.96

In 1733 Henry Bridges put his giant astronomical & astronomical clock on display. It toured for decades displaying...  Read More >>

Mr Bridges' Enlightenment Machine: Forty Years on Tour in Georgian Britain

Mr Bridges' Enlightenment Machine: Forty Years on Tour...

Author: Barb Drummond
ISBN: 9781912829026
Format: Hardback
$64.69

Henry Bridges completed his giant astronomical musical clock in 1733 and put it on display. For forty years it travelled,...  Read More >>

Stan Smith: Some People Think I Am A Shoe

Stan Smith: Some People Think I Am A Shoe

Author: Stan Smith ,  Richard Evans, (Ma (Corning Community College)
ISBN: 9780847862740
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The first definitive volume that celebrates the best-selling Adidas sneaker with a cultlike global following. Featuring...  Read More >>

Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century Home: Modern Art and the Decorative Impulse

Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century Home: Modern Art...

Author: Anca I. Lasc
ISBN: 9781138353404
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

Author: Dan Hicks (Lecturer & Curator in Archaeology, School of Archaeology & Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ,  Mary C. Beaudry (Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology, Boston University)
ISBN: 9780198822554
Format: Paperback
$94.95

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied...  Read More >>

Dress as Social Relations: An interpretation of Bushman dress

Dress as Social Relations: An interpretation of Bushman...

Author: Vibeke Maria Viestad
ISBN: 9781776141913
Format: Paperback
$170.78

To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings of dress vary greatly among people. In Dress...  Read More >>

Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and Society

Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and...

Author: Lipi Begum (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) ,  Rohit K. Dasgupta (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781784539177
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Inside the street-style, sexuality & sartorial codes of today's South Asian youth  Read More >>

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism...

Author: Andrew Milner ,  J.R. Burgmann
ISBN: 9789004314160
Format: Hardback
$588.72

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development...  Read More >>

A Coveted Possession: The Rise and Fall of the Piano in Australia

A Coveted Possession: The Rise and Fall of the Piano...

Author: Michael Atherton
ISBN: 9781863959919
Format: Paperback
$34.99

What has lived with us, entertained us, travelled with us and symbolised Australian aspirations, only to end up...  Read More >>

The Material Culture of Tableware: Staffordshire Pottery and American Values

The Material Culture of Tableware: Staffordshire Pottery...

Author: Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi (Professor of Art History, University Missouri-St Louis, USA)
ISBN: 9781350041271
Format: Hardback
$310.50

The Material Culture of Tableware is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the US. The...  Read More >>

A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism

A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory...

Author: Eugenia Zuroski (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, McMaster University)
ISBN: 9780190887438
Format: Paperback
$85.95

Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste...  Read More >>

Made in L.A. 2018

Made in L.A. 2018

Author: Anne Ellegood ,  Erin Christovale
ISBN: 9783791357416
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This book presents work featured in the 2018 edition of Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum's biennial exhibition.  Read More >>

50 Airliners that Changed Flying

50 Airliners that Changed Flying

Author: Matt Falcus
ISBN: 9780750985833
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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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: 9781138493896
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

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