Material culture books

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Neighborhood and Boulevard: Reading through the Modern Arab City

Neighborhood and Boulevard: Reading through the Modern...

Author: K. Ziadeh ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9780230103610
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality...  Read More >>

Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places

Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public...

Author: E. Lehrer ,  C. Milton
ISBN: 9780230296725
Format: Hardback
$199.00

This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions...  Read More >>

Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling

Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling...

Author: Nicky Gregson
ISBN: 9781907774072
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Based primarily on a former coal-mining village in Northeast England, this book explores practices of inhabitation,...  Read More >>

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

Author: Sherry Turkle (Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder , Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ,  Tod Machover
ISBN: 9780262516778
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"Autobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke...  Read More >>

The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn...

Author: Derek Bok
ISBN: 9780691152561
Format: Paperback
$34.99

How might happiness research affect government policy in the United States - and beyond? This book examines how...  Read More >>

How the Page Matters

How the Page Matters

Author: Bonnie Mak
ISBN: 9780802097606
Format: Hardback
$145.20

In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Material Culture

Shakespeare and Material Culture

Author: Catherine Richardson, PhD (Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780199562275
Format: Paperback
$51.95

What is the significance of Shylock's ring in The Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude's closet...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Material Culture

Shakespeare and Material Culture

Author: Catherine Richardson, PhD (Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780199562282
Format: Hardback
$198.00

What is the significance of Shylock's ring in The Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude's closet...  Read More >>

Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: Set

Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: Set

Author: Geoff Egan
ISBN: 9781843837145
Format: Mixed media product
$514.80

Seven volume set of these classic works of reference, essential for students, scholars, archaeologists, re-enactors...  Read More >>

Red, Black, and Objective: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism

Red, Black, and Objective: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism...

Author: Sal Restivo
ISBN: 9781409410393
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin's concept...  Read More >>

Ethnobiology

Ethnobiology

Author: E. N. Anderson ,  Deborah Pearsall
ISBN: 9780470547854
Format: Paperback
$185.95

The single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of Ethnobiology The...  Read More >>

An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society

An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives...

Author: Carl Knappett (Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory, Department of Art, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780199215454
Format: Hardback
$257.00

Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America

The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in...

Author: Diana Dipaolo Loren
ISBN: 9780813038032
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Investigates the ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and...  Read More >>

Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture

Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of...

Author: Jean Arnold
ISBN: 9781409421276
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A study of Victorian jewels and their representation that explores the role material objects play in the cultural...  Read More >>

Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria

Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics,...

Author: David T Doris
ISBN: 9780295990736
Format: Hardback
$83.99

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Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How war, porn and fast food...

Author: Peter Nowak
ISBN: 9781742377339
Format: Paperback
$29.99

From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie...  Read More >>

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon...

Author: Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Gale R. Owen-Crocker (English, American and Creative Writing, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9780859898430
Format: Hardback
$155.25

A collection which introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to the realities of everyday Anglo-Saxon life...  Read More >>

Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture

Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic...

Author: Paul Gilroy
ISBN: 9780674060234
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Gilroy offers a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’ intellectual and political legacy and revitalizes the study...  Read More >>

Boats, Boffins and Bowlines: The Stories of Sailing Inventors and Innovations

Boats, Boffins and Bowlines: The Stories of Sailing...

Author: George Drower ,  Sir Ben Ainslie
ISBN: 9780752460659
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Richly illustrated with the images of sailing pioneers and inventions to make us masters of the sea.  Read More >>

Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the...

Author: Daniela Bleichmar ,  Peter C. Mancall
ISBN: 9780812243055
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South...  Read More >>

Consumer Culture

Consumer Culture

Author: Celia Lury (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780745643304
Format: Paperback
$36.95

* Second edition of a popular and lively introduction to the nature and role of consumption in modern societies....  Read More >>

Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding

Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art...

Author: Jonathan Harris ,  Richard Williams
ISBN: 9781846316401
Format: Paperback
$156.54

This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilized by local...  Read More >>

Consumer Culture

Consumer Culture

Author: Celia Lury (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780745643298
Format: Hardback
$113.95

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