Material culture books

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Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600

Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600

Author: Dr Jane Hamlett ,  Hannah Greig
ISBN: 9781137340658
Format: Hardback
$200.00

What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and...  Read More >>

Fashioning Memory: Vintage Style and Youth Culture

Fashioning Memory: Vintage Style and Youth Culture

Author: Heike Jenss (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA)
ISBN: 9781472573964
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The valuing of old clothes as “vintage” and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand...  Read More >>

Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies

Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies...

Author: Yvette Taylor ,  Emma Casey
ISBN: 9781137429070
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the...  Read More >>

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove...

Author: Elodie A. Roy
ISBN: 9781472459480
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent...  Read More >>

The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe

The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman,...

Author: Marta Díaz-Guardamino (, Research Fellow, University of Southampton) ,  Leonardo García Sanjuán (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Seville)
ISBN: 9780198724605
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over...  Read More >>

Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity

Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African...

Author: Mark S. Warner
ISBN: 9780813061115
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Warner uses the archaeological data on food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, as the point...  Read More >>

An Archaeology of the Immaterial

An Archaeology of the Immaterial

Author: Victor Buchli (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415840507
Format: Paperback
$79.99

An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture...  Read More >>

The Value of Money

The Value of Money

Author: Ellen R. Feingold
ISBN: 9781935623809
Format: Hardback
$86.99

"""A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge."""  Read More >>

Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism...

Author: Gary Cross
ISBN: 9780231167581
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Gary Cross reveals how consumed nostalgia shapes how we cope with accelerating change, unpacking the cultural dynamics...  Read More >>

An Archaeology of the Immaterial

An Archaeology of the Immaterial

Author: Victor Buchli (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415840491
Format: Hardback
$284.00

An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture...  Read More >>

A Study of the Deposition and Distribution of Copper Alloy Vessels in Roman Britain

A Study of the Deposition and Distribution of Copper...

Author: Jason Lundock
ISBN: 9781784911805
Format: Paperback
$98.32

This book collects together data concerning copper alloy vessels from Roman Britain and relates this evidence to...  Read More >>

Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization

Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print...

Author: Alexander Starre ,  Matthew P. Brown
ISBN: 9781609383596
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society

The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and...

Author: Adam Drazin ,  Susanne Küchler
ISBN: 9781472592644
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural...  Read More >>

Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900

Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900...

Author: Bert De Munck ,  ies Lyna
ISBN: 9781472451965
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Amateur Craft: History and Theory

Amateur Craft: History and Theory

Author: Stephen Knott (Crafts Study Centre, University of the Creative Arts, UK)
ISBN: 9781472577344
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from...  Read More >>

Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past

Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV:...

Author: Robert Wellington
ISBN: 9781472460332
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation...  Read More >>

William Hunter's World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting

William Hunter's World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century...

Author: E. Geoffrey Hancock ,  Nick Pearce
ISBN: 9781409447740
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century,...  Read More >>

Mulberry: The material culture of mulberry trees

Mulberry: The material culture of mulberry trees

Author: Stephen Bowe (St Nicholas Centre, Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781382431
Format: Paperback
$72.47

The book is fundamentally about mulberry trees (both Morus nigra and Morus alba) and all the artefacts created from...  Read More >>

Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising

Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter...

Author: Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design Dublin (Ireland)) ,  Joanna Brück (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781381229
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This volume of essays examines the material and visual culture of the 1916 Rising – from museum displays and family...  Read More >>

Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities: What the Eye Cannot See

Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities: What...

Author: Anna Pechurina
ISBN: 9781137321770
Format: Hardback
$192.95

Focusing on the experiences of Russian migrants to the United Kingdom, this book explores the connection between...  Read More >>

Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music

Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music...

Author: David Greer
ISBN: 9781472445872
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this survey of surviving books of music published before 1640, David Greer has gleaned information about the...  Read More >>

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