Material culture books

Arguing for a paleocybernetic approach to current media studies debates, Nicolas Salazar Sutil develops an original...  Read More >>

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained...  Read More >>

Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching...  Read More >>

This pathbreaking volume expands on the construct of psychological ownership, placing it in the contexts of both...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points...  Read More >>

Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary ‘material turn’ and social historical studies of childhood,...  Read More >>

Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question...  Read More >>

Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question...  Read More >>

For 7,000 years seals have functioned as signs of authority. This publication deals specifically with aspects of...  Read More >>

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural...  Read More >>

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

A book about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It is an exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics...  Read More >>

Drawing on a mix of historical, philosophical, and personal inquiry, Souvenir explores how we use mementos of travel...  Read More >>

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

A book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder...  Read More >>

"""Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie...  Read More >>

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

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

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring...  Read More >>

Donkeys were probably the first animals people rode and the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Yet...  Read More >>

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

Riot grrrls, punk feminists most well-known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and...  Read More >>

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Through their metaphorical and material qualities, textiles can be seductive, exciting, intimate and, at times,...  Read More >>