Material culture books

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History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching...

Author: Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9780415468497
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Embarks upon a discussion about material culture - considering objects, often those found surrounding us in day...  Read More >>

History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching...

Author: Karen Harvey
ISBN: 9780415459327
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Embarks upon a discussion about material culture - considering objects, often those found surrounding us in day...  Read More >>

Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts

Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts

Author: Elizabeth Wilson
ISBN: 9781860647826
Format: Paperback
$34.00

Since the early 19th century, the bohemian has been the protagonist of the story the West has wanted to hear about...  Read More >>

Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic

Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the...

Author: Eli Rubin
ISBN: 9780807832387
Format: Hardback
$139.79

Explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of plastic. This book investigates the connections...  Read More >>

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media...

Author: John Blossom
ISBN: 9780470379219
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Find out how social media communications is changing the content provider industry in Content Nation: Surviving...  Read More >>

American Material Culture and the Texas Experience: The David B. Warren Symposium, Volume 1

American Material Culture and the Texas Experience:...

Author: David B. Warren
ISBN: 9780890901687
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This volume of proceedings is introduced by the paper Warren presented at the first conference, an essay that provides...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory

Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory

Author: Michael Rowlands ,  Peter van Dommelen
ISBN: 9780415247283
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory

Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory

Author: Michael Rowlands ,  Peter van Dommelen
ISBN: 9780415247276
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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Antiques: The History of an Idea

Antiques: The History of an Idea

Author: Leon Rosenstein ,  Bruce Hansen
ISBN: 9780801447341
Format: Hardback
$97.55

The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often...  Read More >>

Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy

Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy...

Author: Juliann Sivulka
ISBN: 9781591026723
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Most of the workers in advertising, the media, retail, and fashion are women. This book tells how women have risen...  Read More >>

Architecture, Artifacts, and Arts in the Harmony Society of George Rapp: The Material Culture of a Nineteenth-century American Utopian Community

Architecture, Artifacts, and Arts in the Harmony Society...

Author: Paul Douglas
ISBN: 9780773448773
Format: Hardback
$290.27

Examines the town planning, architecture and artifacts of the Harmony Society, a group of German Pietists who came...  Read More >>

The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places

The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products,...

Author: Annessa Ann Babic ,  Tanfer Emin Tunc
ISBN: 9781443800273
Format: Hardback
$90.54

The thrust of the literature on consumer space and society focuses on product labeling, marketing techniques and...  Read More >>

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Author: Catherine Harper ,  Doran Ross
ISBN: 9781847882448
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Brings together research in textiles in an academic forum. This work provides a platform for points of departure...  Read More >>

Representing Culture: Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology

Representing Culture: Essays on Identity, Visuality...

Author: Claudia Alvares ,  Claudia Alvares
ISBN: 9781847186867
Format: Hardback
$118.77

The essays collected in this volume are interdisciplinary in nature, defying the traditional boundaries that compartmentalise...  Read More >>

Reading Matter: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture

Reading Matter: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Material...

Author: Arthur Asa Berger
ISBN: 9781412807661
Format: Paperback
$92.99

To be civilized involves, among other things, making, using, and buying objects  Read More >>

Scrapbooks: An American History

Scrapbooks: An American History

Author: Jessica Helfand
ISBN: 9780300126358
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Combining pictures, words, and a wealth of personal ephemera, scrapbook makers preserve on the pages of their books...  Read More >>

Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles

Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority...

Author: Sarah Schrank
ISBN: 9780812241174
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Art and the City explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles....  Read More >>

Culture of Prejudice: Arguments in Critical Social Science

Culture of Prejudice: Arguments in Critical Social Science...

Author: Judith C. Blackwell ,  Murray E.G. Smith
ISBN: 9781442600034
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The principal theme of the book is that social science is at its best, and most exciting, when it confronts and...  Read More >>

Experience Shopping: Where, Why and How People Shop

Experience Shopping: Where, Why and How People Shop...

Author: Editors of Lannoo
ISBN: 9789020978575
Format: Paperback
$33.00

An illustrated history and philosophy of shopping.  Read More >>

Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony

Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony

Author: Paula Bradstreet Richter ,  Tiziana Baldizzone
ISBN: 9780875772141
Format: Hardback
$132.00

"Explores the aesthetic expressions related to weddings - paintings, photographs, decorative objects, textiles,...  Read More >>

The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural Story of the Mirror

The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection...

Author: Miranda Anderson
ISBN: 9781847184825
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The essays in this book are gathered together from the realms of art, literature, history, archaeology, philosophy...  Read More >>

Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and its Legacy

Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural...

Author: Lawrence A. Kuznar ,  Stephen K. Sanderson
ISBN: 9781594512889
Format: Paperback
$126.00

One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of...  Read More >>

The Dressed Society: Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World

The Dressed Society: Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings...

Author: Peter Corrigan
ISBN: 9780761952077
Format: Paperback
$133.00

Demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by social processes and phenomena such as beauty, time, the body, the...  Read More >>

Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America

Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America

Author: Clarissa Confer
ISBN: 9780313337437
Format: Hardback
$100.00

What was life like for native peoples in present-day North America before their lives were disrupted by European...  Read More >>

Material Worlds: Proceedings of the Conference held at Glasgow University, 2005

Material Worlds: Proceedings of the Conference held...

Author: Eugene de Klerk ,  Rachel Moffat
ISBN: 9781847182753
Format: Hardback
$90.54

What are the contemporary definitions of materiality and culture and how do they interrelate? This expansive brief...  Read More >>

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