Material culture books

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Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life

Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in...

Author: M. Haiven
ISBN: 9781137355966
Format: Hardback
$191.95

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Cultures of Financialization argues that, in our age of crisis, the global...  Read More >>

Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized...

Author: Gary S. Cross ,  Robert N. Proctor
ISBN: 9780226121277
Format: Hardback
$62.95

From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter...  Read More >>

Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914

Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914

Author: Deborah Simonton ,  Marjo Kaartinen
ISBN: 9781138803169
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury....  Read More >>

Media Representations of Footballers' Wives: A Wag's Life

Media Representations of Footballers' Wives: A Wag's...

Author: J. Bullen ,  Mark Lawrence
ISBN: 9781137335685
Format: Hardback
$191.95

Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books...  Read More >>

Visualization in the Age of Computerization

Visualization in the Age of Computerization

Author: Annamaria Carusi ,  Timothy Webmoor
ISBN: 9780415814454
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume explores the ways that computational visualisation affects practices of science, the perceptual and...  Read More >>

Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives

Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological...

Author: Susanna Harris ,  Laurence Douny
ISBN: 9781611328875
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, and contemporary...  Read More >>

Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

Author: Dr Anna Moran ,  Dr Sorcha O'Brien
ISBN: 9781472517197
Format: Paperback
$54.99

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing...  Read More >>

Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

Author: Dr Anna Moran ,  Dr Sorcha O'Brien
ISBN: 9780857858467
Format: Hardback
$260.00

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing...  Read More >>

Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

Author: Kristi Upson-Saia ,  Carly Daniel-Hughes
ISBN: 9781472422767
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia

Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in...

Author: Thomas Kaufmann ,  Michael North
ISBN: 9789089645692
Format: Hardback
$409.20

New insights into the world routes travelled by seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, as well as the rise of...  Read More >>

What about Me?: the struggle for identity in a market-based society

What about Me?: the struggle for identity in a market-based...

Author: Paul Verhaeghe ,  Jane Hedley-Prole
ISBN: 9781922247377
Format: Paperback
$33.61

In *What about Me?*, Verhaeghe shows the profound impact that social change is having on mental health, even affecting...  Read More >>

Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World: Material Crossovers

Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient...

Author: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (University of Leicester, UK) ,  Ann Brysbaert (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415843645
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric...  Read More >>

Talking Stones: The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Talking Stones: The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict...

Author: Elisabetta Viggiani
ISBN: 9781782384076
Format: Hardback
$141.95

This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological...  Read More >>

Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral...

Author: David Lipset ,  Richard Handler
ISBN: 9781782383758
Format: Hardback
$143.95

Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience....  Read More >>

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Author: Lisa Hopkins
ISBN: 9781409438199
Format: Hardback
$183.00

Recurring to the governing idea of Shakespeare on the Edge, Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation...  Read More >>

Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions

Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions...

Author: Julieanna Preston
ISBN: 9783887784126
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Performing Matter inquires about the material constitution of interiors as sites of political protest and ethical...  Read More >>

Kitchens: The New Zealand Kitchen in the 20th Century

Kitchens: The New Zealand Kitchen in the 20th Century...

Author: Helen Leach
ISBN: 9781877578373
Format: Paperback
$58.22

This engrossing history of the domestic kitchen covers 10 decades that saw our culinary traditions accommodate extraordinary...  Read More >>

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura...

Author: Eugenia Paulicelli ,  Dr. Allison Levy
ISBN: 9781472411709
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing...  Read More >>

Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds

Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds...

Author: Susan Falls
ISBN: 9781479879908
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can...  Read More >>

An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society

An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives...

Author: Carl Knappett (Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory, Department of Art, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780198706939
Format: Paperback
$105.95

Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network...  Read More >>

Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds

Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds...

Author: Susan Falls
ISBN: 9781479810666
Format: Hardback
$163.00

Draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De...  Read More >>

Probate Inventories of French Immigrants in Early Modern London

Probate Inventories of French Immigrants in Early Modern...

Author: Greig Parker
ISBN: 9781472420855
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Probate inventories provide an unparalleled glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of early modern England, as...  Read More >>

Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2013

Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the Oxford...

Author: Mark McWilliams
ISBN: 9781909248403
Format: Paperback
$77.63

35 essays by international scholars on the subject of food and material culture from every possible angle, and from...  Read More >>

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