Material culture books

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Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists

Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists

Author: Steve Brown ,  Anne Clarke
ISBN: 9781611323832
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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

Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

Author: Vanessa Brown
ISBN: 9780857854452
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both...  Read More >>

Culture and Technology: A Primer

Culture and Technology: A Primer

Author: Jennifer Daryl Slack ,  J. Macgregor Wise
ISBN: 9781433107757
Format: Paperback
$74.71

Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners...  Read More >>

Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Author: Dominik Bartmanski ,  Ian Woodward
ISBN: 9780857856180
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Recent years have seen not just a revival, but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze,...  Read More >>

Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

Author: Vanessa Brown
ISBN: 9780857854445
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both...  Read More >>

Historical Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape

Historical Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture...

Author: Carmel Schrire ,  Jeffrey J. Durst
ISBN: 9781598741643
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope,...  Read More >>

Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany

Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early...

Author: JeffreyChipps Smith ,  Dr. Allison Levy
ISBN: 9781472435873
Format: Hardback
$187.00

During the early modern period, visual imagery was put to ever new uses as many disciplines adopted visual criteria...  Read More >>

Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture

Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American...

Author: Bob Johnson
ISBN: 9780700620043
Format: Hardback
$118.77

The history of America's move away from renewable energy to fossil fuels and the cultural and ecological changes...  Read More >>

Optical Play: Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian Culture

Optical Play: Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian...

Author: Julia Bekman Chadaga ,  Gary Saul Morson
ISBN: 9780810130036
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Chadaga's ambitious study proceeds from the idea that glass - in its uses as a material object and as it was depicted...  Read More >>

Objects and Identities: Roman Britain and the North-Western Provinces

Objects and Identities: Roman Britain and the North-Western...

Author: Hella Eckardt (Associate Professor in Roman Archaeology, Associate Professor in Roman Archaeology, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780199693986
Format: Hardback
$132.95

This volume explores Rome's northern provinces through the portable artefacts people used and left behind. The author...  Read More >>

Art, Anthropology and the Gift

Art, Anthropology and the Gift

Author: Roger Sansi
ISBN: 9780857855350
Format: Paperback
$58.99

In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology...  Read More >>

Art, Anthropology and the Gift

Art, Anthropology and the Gift

Author: Roger Sansi
ISBN: 9780857857811
Format: Hardback
$252.00

In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology...  Read More >>

British Art in the Nuclear Age

British Art in the Nuclear Age

Author: Catherine Jolivette ,  Professor David Peters Corbett
ISBN: 9781472412768
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance...

Author: Mary Barnard
ISBN: 9781442647558
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the...  Read More >>

The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture

The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture...

Author: Scott Herring
ISBN: 9780226171715
Format: Paperback
$47.95

"The verb ""declutter"" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests...  Read More >>

The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture

The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture...

Author: Scott Herring
ISBN: 9780226171685
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"The verb ""declutter"" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests...  Read More >>

Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World

Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World

Author: Philip Hook
ISBN: 9780718192457
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value.  Read More >>

Social Matter: Anthropological Approaches to Materiality

Social Matter: Anthropological Approaches to Materiality...

Author: Tryfon Bampilis ,  Pieter ter Keurs
ISBN: 9783643902252
Format: Paperback
$118.67

This book is inspired by material culture studies. Authors center on the idea that matter and materiality are integral...  Read More >>

Reading Gramsci

Reading Gramsci

Author: Francisco Fernandez Buey ,  Nicholas Gray
ISBN: 9789004223561
Format: Hardback
$398.64

In Reading Gramsci, Francisco Fernandez Buey reveals the enduring relevance of Gramsci's reflections on politics,...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Text: The Art of Ambiguity

Material Culture and Text: The Art of Ambiguity

Author: Christopher Tilley
ISBN: 9781138815162
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life

Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday...

Author: David M. Evans (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9780857852335
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Food Waste is the first academic study to tackle this highly topical subject. Drawing from social science approaches...  Read More >>

Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life

Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday...

Author: David M. Evans (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9780857852328
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Food Waste is the first academic study to tackle this highly topical subject. Drawing from social science approaches...  Read More >>

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