Material culture books

Arthur Asa Berger is back with the second edition of his popular, user-friendly guide for students who want to understand...  Read More >>

A long-overdue challenge to the commonplace assumption that the Second World War was a period of consumer austerity...  Read More >>

Simultaneously published in the UK --T.p. verso.  Read More >>

Drawing on case studies across the Asia-Pacific region, Gaming in Social, Locative and Mobile Media explores the...  Read More >>

This book is the first to address medieval book history for graduate students of medieval English literature. Ralph...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives,...  Read More >>

Originally published: London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.  Read More >>

A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives,...  Read More >>

Arthur Asa Berger is back with the second edition of his popular, user-friendly guide for students who want to understand...  Read More >>

By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about...  Read More >>

Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic...  Read More >>

By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about...  Read More >>

This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to explore how historical objects and sites have changed...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the...  Read More >>

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Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address...  Read More >>

First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient...  Read More >>

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history...  Read More >>

First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient...  Read More >>

"""Fat"". In contemporary society the word never fails to elicit powerful emotions, especially as it relates to...  Read More >>

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history...  Read More >>

"Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging...  Read More >>

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How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category?...  Read More >>

They bear witness to the stories of men whose only morning comfort in the trenches was the rum ration, children...  Read More >>