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Engaging with contemporary scholarship on museums and their interaction with communities, this work features contributions... Read More >>
One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency, is a provocative... Read More >>
What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, but how... Read More >>
What role does 'vanity' play in the lives of 21st century subjects? Exploring a range of fields including public... Read More >>
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes... Read More >>
Thus, the late eighteenth century proves to be a watershed moment in home's conceptual life, one that produced a... Read More >>
In the past, museums often changed the meaning of icons or statues of deities from sacred to aesthetic, or used... Read More >>
"An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's ""exterior""... Read More >>
he Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies,... Read More >>
This is the first anthropological study of the contemporary Chinese fashion and textile industries from high-end... Read More >>
Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There... Read More >>
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Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book... Read More >>
This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study... Read More >>
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters... Read More >>
Charts a new understanding of the materiality of religion, by drawing on the field of archaeological theory and... Read More >>
In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written... Read More >>
This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century... Read More >>
The cross-fertilisation in written and material culture across borders in the medieval world. Read More >>
