Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Fashionable Art

Fashionable Art

Author: Adam Geczy ,  Jacqueline Millner
ISBN: 9780857851819
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia Owing to digitization, globalization...  Read More >>

Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell

Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering after Alfred...

Author: Liana Chua ,  Mark Elliott
ISBN: 9781782389132
Format: Paperback
$72.32

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative...  Read More >>

Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City

Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic...

Author: Joseph Sciorra
ISBN: 9781621901198
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Offers a place-centric, ethnographic study of the religious material culture of New York City’s Italian-American...  Read More >>

Retailing and the Language of Goods, 1550-1820

Retailing and the Language of Goods, 1550-1820

Author: Nancy Cox ,  Professor Gareth Shaw
ISBN: 9781472416100
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think

The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We...

Author: Alexander Klose (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) ,  Charles Marcrum II (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780262028578
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.  Read More >>

Ritual, Performance and the Senses

Ritual, Performance and the Senses

Author: Michael Bull ,  Jon P. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780857854735
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Artifacts from Medieval Europe

Artifacts from Medieval Europe

Author: James B. Tschen-Emmons, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781610696210
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Using artifacts as primary sources, this book enables students to comprehensively assess and analyze historic evidence...  Read More >>

Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning

Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization...

Author: Oivind Fuglerud ,  Leon Wainwright
ISBN: 9781782385684
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of...  Read More >>

Han Material Culture: An Archaeological Analysis and Vessel Typology

Han Material Culture: An Archaeological Analysis and...

Author: Sophia-Karin Psarras
ISBN: 9781107069220
Format: Hardback
$274.28

Han Material Culture is an analysis of Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) Chinese archaeology based on a comparison of...  Read More >>

Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning

Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization...

Author: Oivind Fuglerud ,  Leon Wainwright
ISBN: 9781782385660
Format: Hardback
$164.95

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, & aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the...  Read More >>

Machines

Machines

Author: Abraham P. DeLeon ,  Richard Diem
ISBN: 9781623968809
Format: Paperback
$146.89

An exploration of machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as...  Read More >>

Machines

Machines

Author: Abraham P. DeLeon ,  Richard Diem
ISBN: 9781623968816
Format: Hardback
$263.31

An exploration of machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as...  Read More >>

Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe

Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe...

Author: Myriam Arcangeli
ISBN: 9780813060422
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Ceramics serve as one of the best-known artifacts excavated by archaeologists. They are carefully described, classified,...  Read More >>

Golf Ball

Golf Ball

Author: Dr. Harry Brown
ISBN: 9781628921380
Format: Paperback
$24.99

"""Golf balls embody the complex human relation to the natural world, a will to control nature, but the action of...  Read More >>

Remote Control

Remote Control

Author: Caetlin Benson-Allott ,  Dr. Christopher Schaberg
ISBN: 9781623563110
Format: Paperback
$24.99

"""In association with Loyola University New Orleans, Georgia Tech Center for Media Studies""--Series title page."...  Read More >>

Driver's License

Driver's License

Author: Meredith Castile ,  Dr. Christopher Schaberg
ISBN: 9781628929133
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Drone

Drone

Author: Adam Rothstein ,  Dr. Christopher Schaberg
ISBN: 9781628926323
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Tangible Things: Making History through Objects

Tangible Things: Making History through Objects

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ,  Sarah Anne Carter
ISBN: 9780199382286
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Based on the rich museum collections of Harvard University, Tangible Things challenges rigid distinctions between...  Read More >>

The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter

The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and...

Author: Matthew Mindrup ,  Dr. Eamonn Canniffe
ISBN: 9781472424587
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Focusing on matter as the premise of an architect’s imagination, each chapter identifies and graphically illustrates...  Read More >>

Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard

Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern...

Author: Allison Sherman ,  Allison Sherman
ISBN: 9781472443656
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Showcasing both the diversity within and the porosity between the 'centre' and 'periphery' in Renaissance art, this...  Read More >>

Coffin Hardware in Nineteenth-century America

Coffin Hardware in Nineteenth-century America

Author: Megan E Springate
ISBN: 9781598741353
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia: Little Tubes of Mighty Power

Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia: Little...

Author: Anna S Agbe-Davies
ISBN: 9781611323962
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production...  Read More >>

Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists

Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists

Author: Steve Brown ,  Anne Clarke
ISBN: 9781611323849
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Twenty-five archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact....  Read More >>

Coffin Hardware in Nineteenth-century America

Coffin Hardware in Nineteenth-century America

Author: Megan E Springate
ISBN: 9781598741346
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Using data from archaeological excavations, patent filings, and marketing catalogs, this book provides a broad view...  Read More >>

Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia: Little Tubes of Mighty Power

Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia: Little...

Author: Anna S Agbe-Davies
ISBN: 9781611323955
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production...  Read More >>

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