Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Excavating The Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture, Cognition & Materiality

Excavating The Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture,...

Author: Mads Kahler Holst ,  Niels N. Johansen
ISBN: 9788779342170
Format: Hardback
$110.88

Deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, that is our technologies, arts and environments,...  Read More >>

A Swedish Field Trip to the Outer Hebrides, 1934

A Swedish Field Trip to the Outer Hebrides, 1934

Author: Alexander Fenton
ISBN: 9781905267651
Format: Hardback
$64.69

In 1934 a Swedish museum director and his assistant researched the maritime and material culture of the Outer Hebrides....  Read More >>

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between...

Author: Ian Hodder (Stanford University, USA) ,  Ian Hodder
ISBN: 9780470672129
Format: Paperback
$121.31

"In his new book, Ian Hodder discusses our human ""entanglements"" with material things, and how archaeological...  Read More >>

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between...

Author: Ian Hodder (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9780470672112
Format: Hardback
$192.95

"In his new book, Ian Hodder discusses our human ""entanglements"" with material things, and how archaeological...  Read More >>

Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices

Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices...

Author: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly ,  Gillian Rose
ISBN: 9781409412229
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the years of critical work have been the visual turn and the material turn....  Read More >>

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy,...

Author: Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University, USA) ,  Jordan Frith (North Carolina State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415506007
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime,...  Read More >>

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy,...

Author: Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University, USA) ,  Jordan Frith (North Carolina State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415888233
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime,...  Read More >>

Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries

Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects...

Author: Sven Dupre ,  Christoph Luthy
ISBN: 9783825816353
Format: Paperback
$80.08

This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings...  Read More >>

Was It Something I Wore?: Dress, Identity, Materiality

Was It Something I Wore?: Dress, Identity, Materiality...

Author: Relebohile Moletsane ,  Claudia Mitchell
ISBN: 9780796923622
Format: Paperback
$103.37

People often wear their causes on their t-shirts, in their choice of traditional attire or other garments, or by...  Read More >>

Fern Fever

Fern Fever

Author: Sarah Whittingham
ISBN: 9780711230705
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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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: 9780415895347
Format: Hardback
$347.00

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

Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life

Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life...

Author: Siraganian
ISBN: 9780199796557
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Modernism's Other Work challenges our view of relationships between aesthetic autonomy and the world of daily life--a...  Read More >>

Transnational Feminism in Film and Media

Transnational Feminism in Film and Media

Author: K. Marciniak ,  A. Imre
ISBN: 9780230338142
Format: Paperback
$89.99

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective...  Read More >>

Links to the Past: The Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans

Links to the Past: The Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans...

Author: Wendy S. Arbeit
ISBN: 9780824834760
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Documents shapes, patterns, and motifs of Native Hawaiian artifacts found in private collections and museums around...  Read More >>

The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in...

Author: Holly Dugan (The George Washington University)
ISBN: 9781421402345
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Dugan's inspired analysis of a wide range of underexplored sources makes available to scholars a remarkable wealth...  Read More >>

The Severed Head: Capital Visions

The Severed Head: Capital Visions

Author: Julia Kristeva ,  Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9780231157209
Format: Hardback
$132.95

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

A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America

A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early...

Author: David Jaffee
ISBN: 9780812222005
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Consumer Culture

The Archaeology of Consumer Culture

Author: Paul R. Mullins ,  Michael S Nassaney
ISBN: 9780813037509
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Sifting through America’s historical archaeological record to trace the evolution of consumer culture, the author...  Read More >>

From Earth-Bound to Satellite: Telescopes, Skills and Networks

From Earth-Bound to Satellite: Telescopes, Skills and...

Author: A.D. Morrison-Low ,  Sven Dupre
ISBN: 9789004211506
Format: Hardback
$359.04

Marking the anniversary of the telescope's invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical...  Read More >>

The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi’i Islam

The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism: Iconography...

Author: Pedram Khosronejad
ISBN: 9781848851689
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Leading experts trace the material heritage of Iranian Shi'ism within each of its political, religious and cultural...  Read More >>

Urban Consumption

Urban Consumption

Author: Peter Newton
ISBN: 9780643096875
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Urban Consumption explores the prospect for winding back current levels of household consumption in high income...  Read More >>

The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life

The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation...

Author: Jodi A. Barnes
ISBN: 9781611170344
Format: Hardback
$131.87

As these essays open new vistas on the social construction of race and racism, they demonstrate a more hopeful view...  Read More >>

Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans

Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the...

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9781848859609
Format: Paperback
$52.99

The manufacture and trade in crafted goods and the men and women who were involved in this industry - including...  Read More >>

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