Material culture books

Traces the transformation of antiques from family keepsakes to valuable artistic objects, examining the role of...  Read More >>

A handsome collection of favourite children's classics, beautifully illustrated by today's top artists.New beautifully...  Read More >>

Discover the strategies behind luxury brands, including how they position themselves as truly elite products or...  Read More >>

Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people...  Read More >>

Presents cases that treat the Pentecostal mediascape as a material practice of faith, as sacred embodiments of spirituality,...  Read More >>

Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people...  Read More >>

Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet?...  Read More >>

Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet?...  Read More >>

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In this original book cultural anthropologist Dina Siegel follows the route of a diamond from the mines of Africa...  Read More >>

Exploring the complex interactions between people and objects in the past, this book offers a fresh approach to...  Read More >>

An original, richly illustrated analysis of American honeymooning, 1820-1900, that offers fresh insights into the...  Read More >>

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An informative overview of the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can embody...  Read More >>

Exploring the changing relationship between culture and the market, this book addresses the question: Wherein lies...  Read More >>

Presents an account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation...  Read More >>

Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance,...  Read More >>

Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance,...  Read More >>

Offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring...  Read More >>

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The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader assembles the most important writings on advertising and society. Arranged...  Read More >>

A guide for students learning what objects can mean. It takes the reader through half a dozen theoretical models...  Read More >>

The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader assembles the most important writings on advertising and society. Arranged...  Read More >>

Interweaving notions of identity and subjectivity, spatial contexts, materiality and meaning, this book discusses...  Read More >>

Money and Soul opens up new methods of looking at, thinking about and using money. It points to a future where our...  Read More >>