Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre: Essays on the Archaeology and History of New France and Canadian Culture in Honour of Jean-Pierre Chrestien

Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre: Essays on the Archaeology...

Author: John Willis
ISBN: 9780776624570
Format: Paperback
$283.97

Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre offers a series of essays on the archaeology and history of New France, and sets...  Read More >>

History Through Material Culture

History Through Material Culture

Author: Leonie Hannan ,  Sarah Longair
ISBN: 9781784991265
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Material culture is central to human experience and represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written...  Read More >>

British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape

British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making...

Author: Ben Bradley
ISBN: 9780774834186
Format: Hardback
$82.80

Although cars and roads promised freedom, they offered drivers a curated view of the landscape. This book takes...  Read More >>

The Lives of Paintings: Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth Century

The Lives of Paintings: Presence, Agency and Likeness...

Author: Elsje van Kessel
ISBN: 9789087282813
Format: Hardback
$214.76

In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended...  Read More >>

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece: Manipulating Material Culture

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient...

Author: Lisa Nevett
ISBN: 9780472130238
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight...  Read More >>

The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds

The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation...

Author: Paul Basu (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781474264778
Format: Hardback
$260.00

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

History Through Material Culture

History Through Material Culture

Author: Leonie Hannan ,  Sarah Longair
ISBN: 9781526112927
Format: Electronic book text
$33.61

Material culture is central to human experience and represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written...  Read More >>

Traffic

Traffic

Author: Professor Paul Josephson (Colby College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501329333
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Tree

Tree

Author: Matthew Battles (Harvard University, USA)
ISBN: 9781628920512
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Visualizing Community: Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia

Visualizing Community: Art, Material Culture, and Settlement...

Author: Robert G. Ousterhout
ISBN: 9780884024132
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Cappadocia is unrivaled in its preservation of the physical remains of the Byzantine Empire: churches, towns and...  Read More >>

Egypt beyond representation: Materials and materiality of Aegyptiaca Romana

Egypt beyond representation: Materials and materiality...

Author: Sander Müskens
ISBN: 9789087282752
Format: Paperback
$216.48

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Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street

Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient...

Author: Alf Hornborg
ISBN: 9781349932481
Format: Paperback
$136.95

Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book...  Read More >>

History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500

History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material...

Author: Peter N. Miller
ISBN: 9780801453700
Format: Hardback
$95.74

In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the...  Read More >>

Brought to Book: Print in Ireland, 1680-1784

Brought to Book: Print in Ireland, 1680-1784

Author: Mr. Toby Barnard
ISBN: 9781846826290
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology

Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology

Author: Marcus Milwright
ISBN: 9781474409162
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This anthology of written sources (dating from the seventh to the twentieth centuries) explores numerous aspects...  Read More >>

Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters

Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters...

Author: Arnd Schneider
ISBN: 9781474231244
Format: Paperback
$52.99

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the...  Read More >>

Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters

Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters...

Author: Arnd Schneider
ISBN: 9781474231251
Format: Hardback
$252.00

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the...  Read More >>

Studies In Pre-capitalist Modes Of Production: Historical Materialist Volume 97

Studies In Pre-capitalist Modes Of Production: Historical...

Author: Laura da Graca ,  Andrea Zingarelli
ISBN: 9781608466870
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This collection represents a wide-ranging and important new contribution to the historical debate of how to understand...  Read More >>

Gramsci's Pathways: Historical Materialism Volume 102

Gramsci's Pathways: Historical Materialism Volume 102...

Author: Guido Liguori
ISBN: 9781608466924
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Liguori investigates the pathways of Gramsci's thinking, bringing us closer to an author who is more widely-known'...  Read More >>

Austro-marxism: Austro-marxist Theory And Strategy Volume 1: Historical Materialism Volume 109

Austro-marxism: Austro-marxist Theory And Strategy Volume...

Author: Mark E. Blum ,  William Smaldone
ISBN: 9781608466993
Format: Paperback
$64.99

The essential theoretical contributions of leading Austro-Marxist thinkersBauer, Renner, Adler, Hilferding, and...  Read More >>

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Author: Cheryl Buckley (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Dr Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design, USA)
ISBN: 9781847888266
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau’s notion of ‘the everyday’ as a critical starting point, this book considers...  Read More >>

Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China

Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China...

Author: Xiaolong Wu (Hanover College, Indiana)
ISBN: 9781107134027
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This comprehensive study of a mysterious state in ancient China offers fresh new perspectives for interpreting the...  Read More >>

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Author: Cheryl Buckley (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Dr Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design, USA)
ISBN: 9781847888273
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau’s notion of ‘the everyday’ as a critical starting point, this book considers...  Read More >>

Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and Experience

Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and...

Author: Ellen Swift (Reader, Reader, University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780198785262
Format: Hardback
$328.95

The book examines Roman artefacts using design theory to shed new light on our understanding of the relationship...  Read More >>

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