Material culture books

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An Archaeology of the Troubles: The dark heritage of Long Kesh/Maze prison

An Archaeology of the Troubles: The dark heritage of...

Author: Laura McAtackney (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9780199673919
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This volume reveals the seminal role of material culture in understanding the Long Kesh / Maze prison during the...  Read More >>

Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum

Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum

Author: MaiaWellington Gahtan
ISBN: 9781409456841
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The first focussed study of Vasari's original contributions to museum formation, this collection presents a cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities...

Author: Douglas N. Dow ,  Dr. Allison Levy
ISBN: 9781409440543
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention, this study examines...  Read More >>

Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation

Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation...

Author: Paul Smeyers ,  Marc Depaepe
ISBN: 9783319030821
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and...  Read More >>

Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean

Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean...

Author: Dr Stephanie L. Hathaway ,  Dr David W. Kim
ISBN: 9781472524591
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume presents evidence of the extent and effects of intercultural contacts across Europe and the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator

Author: Andreas Bernard
ISBN: 9780814787168
Format: Hardback
$75.99

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The Severed Head: Capital Visions

The Severed Head: Capital Visions

Author: Julia Kristeva ,  Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9780231157216
Format: Paperback
$46.95

"Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations...  Read More >>

Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America

Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances,...

Author: Jonathan Rees (Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo)
ISBN: 9781421411064
Format: Hardback
$109.00

Rees shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural...  Read More >>

Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century

Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and...

Author: Janice Helland ,  Beverly Lemire
ISBN: 9781409462071
Format: Hardback
$305.00

With object study at the core, this book brings together a collection of essays that address the past and present...  Read More >>

The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture: With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material...

Author: Lisa H. Cooper ,  Andrea Denny-Brown
ISBN: 9781409456766
Format: Hardback
$305.00

"This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the arma Christi, the ""instruments of the Passion,""...  Read More >>

The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

Author: Marcos Cruz ,  Professor Teddy Cruz
ISBN: 9781409469346
Format: Paperback
$124.00

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Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation

Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation...

Author: Paul Cornish (Imperial War Museum, UK) ,  Nicholas J Saunders (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9780415834223
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in...  Read More >>

Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture

Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity...

Author: R. Scapp ,  B. Seitz
ISBN: 9781137326812
Format: Paperback
$84.99

"A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of ""class"" from a novel perspective. Following...  Read More >>

Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture

Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity...

Author: R. Scapp ,  B. Seitz
ISBN: 9781137326782
Format: Hardback
$84.99

"A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of ""class"" from a novel perspective. Following...  Read More >>

The Material Culture of the Jacobites

The Material Culture of the Jacobites

Author: Neil Guthrie
ISBN: 9781107041332
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Condensed Reality: A Study of Material Culture - Case Studies from Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and Enggano (Indonesia)

Condensed Reality: A Study of Material Culture - Case...

Author: P.J.ter Keurs
ISBN: 9789057891120
Format: Paperback
$102.21

End of Year Sales 50% discount (till 08/02/2011), current prices are after discount  Read More >>

Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance after Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance...

Author: J. Adams
ISBN: 9781137275585
Format: Hardback
$84.99

While secondary texts on Paul Virilio typically see no way out of the tempo- and techno-dystopia he articulates,...  Read More >>

Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile...

Author: Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia) ,  Jean Burgess (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415748391
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This international, interdisciplinary edited collection explores a range of possible theoretical and empirical approaches...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion in Europe

Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion...

Author: Magdalena Craciun
ISBN: 9780857854513
Format: Paperback
$73.99

The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume...  Read More >>

Women and the Material Culture of Death

Women and the Material Culture of Death

Author: Maureen Daly Goggin ,  Beth Fowkes Tobin
ISBN: 9781409444169
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion in Europe

Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion...

Author: Magdalena Craciun
ISBN: 9780857854506
Format: Hardback
$252.00

The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume...  Read More >>

When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy

When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and...

Author: Gary Genosko
ISBN: 9781554588978
Format: Paperback
$49.50

Provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses between technologically inspired subcultures and the corporate...  Read More >>

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