Material culture books

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Interior Design: A Critical Introduction

Interior Design: A Critical Introduction

Author: Clive Edwards (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781847883131
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This book highlights the key concepts behind the study of interiors to present an inter-disciplinary overview of...  Read More >>

Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society

Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science...

Author: Jeremy Bernstein
ISBN: 9781441926241
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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A History of the World in 100 Objects

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Author: Dr Neil MacGregor (Director)
ISBN: 9781846144134
Format: Hardback
$108.90

Takes an original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

Author: Ken Koltun-Fromm
ISBN: 9780253004161
Format: Electronic book text
$60.46

How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating study of the interplay between material...  Read More >>

Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario

Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture...

Author: Michelle Hamilton ,  Michelle Hamilton
ISBN: 9780773537545
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A nuanced study of conflicts over possession of Aboriginal artifacts.  Read More >>

Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916

Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916...

Author: Stephanie Rains
ISBN: 9780716530695
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Examines the history of commodity culture in Dublin between the end of the Famine and the 1916 Rising. This book...  Read More >>

Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility, Materiality and Identity

Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility,...

Author: Peter van Dommelen (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  A. Bernard Knapp
ISBN: 9780415586696
Format: Paperback
$70.00

Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential...  Read More >>

Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings

Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material...

Author: Tara Hamling ,  Catherine Richardson, PhD
ISBN: 9780754666370
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Deals with the objects people owned and how they used them. This title features essays which investigate the type...  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: 9780812242577
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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

Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 2 Years of Inspired Fakes

Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 2 Years of Inspired Fakes...

Author: Robert Kanigel
ISBN: 9780812221329
Format: Paperback
$52.67

From Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. Faux...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

Author: Dan Hicks (Lecturer & Curator in Archaeology, School of Archaeology & Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ,  Mary C. Beaudry (Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology, Boston University)
ISBN: 9780199218714
Format: Hardback
$346.95

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied...  Read More >>

Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience

Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience...

Author: Beatriz da Costa (Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine) ,  Kavita Philip (Director of Graduate Studies, History, University of California Irvine)
ISBN: 9780262514910
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences....  Read More >>

After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past

After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary...

Author: Rodney Harrison (Lecturer in Heritage Studies, The Open University) ,  John Schofield (Member of English Heritage's Characterisation Team)
ISBN: 9780199548088
Format: Paperback
$100.95

Rodney Harrison and John Schofield explore how archaeology can inform the study of our own society and other late-modern...  Read More >>

Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture

Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer...

Author: Gideon Reuveni ,  Nils Roemer
ISBN: 9789004186033
Format: Hardback
$385.44

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Textile

Textile

Author: Catherine Harper ,  Doran Ross
ISBN: 9781847886781
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Textile is an international and peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in textile studies in an innovative...  Read More >>

TOY STORIES AIRFIX

TOY STORIES AIRFIX

Author: James May
ISBN: 9781844861163
Format: Hardback
$39.47

After his ambitious project to create a 1/1 scale Spitfire, James May returns to the brand synonymous with model...  Read More >>

Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity

Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern...

Author: Alla Myzelev ,  John Potvin
ISBN: 9780754669159
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Challenging the notion that fashion and furniture were or are separate enterprises and distinct material aesthetic...  Read More >>

Society, Culture and Technology at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Society, Culture and Technology at the Dawn of the 21st...

Author: Katarzyna Leszczynska ,  Janusz Mucha
ISBN: 9781443821568
Format: Hardback
$103.47

The articles in this collection analyse methodological aspects of today's hard sciences and humanities and of applied...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

Author: Ken Koltun-Fromm
ISBN: 9780253221834
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America

Author: Ken Koltun-Fromm
ISBN: 9780253354549
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss

An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence...

Author: Mikkel Bille ,  Frida Hastrup
ISBN: 9781441955289
Format: Hardback
$340.56

In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture...  Read More >>

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Third Edition

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Third...

Author: Paul A. Erickson ,  Liam D. Murphy
ISBN: 9781442600690
Format: Paperback
$171.47

This comprehensive anthology presents 40 readings that are critical to an understanding of anthropological theory...  Read More >>

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