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Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality

Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality

Author: K. Birth
ISBN: 9781137017888
Format: Paperback
$129.00

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think...  Read More >>

Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality

Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality

Author: K. Birth
ISBN: 9781137017871
Format: Hardback
$139.00

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think...  Read More >>

Modernist Mysteries: Persephone

Modernist Mysteries: Persephone

Author: Tamara Levitz (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, UCLA, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780199730162
Format: Hardback
$275.00

"Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone is a landmark study that will move the field of musicology in important new directions....  Read More >>

Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies

Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies

Author: Ruth Barnes
ISBN: 9780415652278
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This is the first dedicated book to concentrate on textiles as a major commodity, and primary indicator of status,...  Read More >>

DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures

DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures...

Author: Brent Luvaas
ISBN: 9780857850409
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"Through rich ethnographic detail and cutting-edge theory, DIY Style tells the fascinating story of an international...  Read More >>

Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics & Politics of Biotechnological Challenges

Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics & Politics of...

Author: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen ,  Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
ISBN: 9788779345706
Format: Paperback
$126.72

If biotechnology can be used to ""upgrade"" humans physically and mentally, should it be used at all? And, if so,...  Read More >>

DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures

DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures...

Author: Brent Luvaas
ISBN: 9780857850393
Format: Hardback
$200.00

"Through rich ethnographic detail and cutting-edge theory, DIY Style tells the fascinating story of an international...  Read More >>

Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public Eye

Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public...

Author: M. Iqani
ISBN: 9780230303683
Format: Hardback
$84.99

How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted...  Read More >>

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8

Author: Robin Netherton (Author) ,  Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 9781843837367
Format: Hardback
$168.19

Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.  Read More >>

Khadi: Gandhi′s Mega Symbol of Subversion

Khadi: Gandhi′s Mega Symbol of Subversion

Author: Peter Gonsalves
ISBN: 9788132107354
Format: Hardback
$101.25

Khadi: Gandhi's Mega Symbol of Subversion investigates the power of a symbol to qualitatively transform society...  Read More >>

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families...

Author: Jeanne E. Arnold ,  Anthony P. Graesch
ISBN: 9781931745611
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism,...  Read More >>

A History of the World in 100 Objects

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Author: Dr Neil MacGregor (Director)
ISBN: 9780241951774
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the...  Read More >>

Youth Culture and Private Space

Youth Culture and Private Space

Author: S. Lincoln ,  Si N Lincoln
ISBN: 9780230233263
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Siân Lincoln considers the use, role and significance of private spaces in the lives of young people. Drawing on...  Read More >>

Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India

Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition...

Author: Roma Chatterji
ISBN: 9780415523011
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores visual narratives in folk art, particularly the scroll painting tradition of the patuas of West...  Read More >>

Cultures of Colour: Visual, Material, Textual

Cultures of Colour: Visual, Material, Textual

Author: Chris Horrocks
ISBN: 9780857454645
Format: Hardback
$95.00

Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter...  Read More >>

Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things

Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things...

Author: Sandra H. Dudley (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9780415581783
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects...  Read More >>

Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things

Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things...

Author: Sandra H. Dudley (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9780415581776
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects...  Read More >>

Archaeology: New Approaches in Theory and Techniques

Archaeology: New Approaches in Theory and Techniques...

Author: Imma Ollich-Castanyer
ISBN: 9789535105909
Format: Hardback
$359.66

The contents of this book show the implementation of new methodologies applied to archaeological sites. Chapters...  Read More >>

'Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production in Early Modern England

'Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production...

Author: Helen Smith (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of York)
ISBN: 9780199651580
Format: Hardback
$257.00

Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts....  Read More >>

Experiments in Modern Living: Scientists' Houses in Canberra 1950–1970

Experiments in Modern Living: Scientists' Houses in...

Author: Milton Cameron
ISBN: 9781921862694
Format: Paperback
$77.83

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Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural...

Author: Maruska Svasek
ISBN: 9780857453235
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Most theories of material culture, transnationalism, and globalization have failed to incorporate a focus on emotions...  Read More >>

Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest

Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest

Author: Bernard Sellato
ISBN: 9788776940744
Format: Hardback
$150.08

Recognizes the plaiting tradition as the primary creative expression of the peoples of Borneo, producing the most...  Read More >>

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