Material culture books

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My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family

My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of...

Author: Kathy Henderson
ISBN: 9781803991221
Format: Hardback
$49.99

One scattered family and 200 years of European turmoil told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women...  Read More >>

Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama

Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama...

Author: Murat Ögütcü ,  Aisha Hussain
ISBN: 9781350300453
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either...  Read More >>

Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture

Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture

Author: Cyrus Mulready
ISBN: 9783031090264
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Aimed towards undergraduate students taking courses in material culture as well as postgraduate students embarking...  Read More >>

We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition

We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition...

Author: Noha Eilouti ,  Reem Kassis
ISBN: 9781800783287
Format: Hardback
$27.99

Celebrating all things Palestinian!  Read More >>

Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries

Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in...

Author: Emma Hagström Molin ,  Judith Rinker Öhman
ISBN: 9789004472051
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Emma Hagström Molin uncovers the history of a most peculiar heritage: seventeenth-century plunder in the form of...  Read More >>

Copper in Ancient Egypt: Before, during and after the Pyramid Age (c. 4000 – 1600 BC)

Copper in Ancient Egypt: Before, during and after the...

Author: Martin Odler
ISBN: 9789004524088
Format: Hardback
$633.60

The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what we know about the use of copper by the ancient Egyptians...  Read More >>

The Material Culture of Tableware: Staffordshire Pottery and American Values

The Material Culture of Tableware: Staffordshire Pottery...

Author: Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi (Professor of Art History, University Missouri-St Louis, USA)
ISBN: 9781350359925
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Material Culture of Tableware is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the USA. This...  Read More >>

Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70

Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70

Author: Liz Tregenza
ISBN: 9781350245860
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures...

Author: Irina D. Mihalache (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Professor Elizabeth Zanoni (Old Dominion University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350148307
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Cookbooks. Menus. Ingredients. Dishes. Pots. Kitchens. Markets. Museum exhibitions. These objects, representations,...  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Fox

Introducing the Medieval Fox

Author: Paul Wackers
ISBN: 9781786839886
Format: Paperback
$26.95

This is a short cultural history of the fox in the Middle Ages, outlining medieval views on foxes and illustrating...  Read More >>

The Textile Reader

The Textile Reader

Author: Professor Jessica Hemmings (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350239852
Format: Hardback
$240.00

The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing...  Read More >>

The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia

The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small...

Author: Andrew Heavens
ISBN: 9780750997362
Format: Hardback
$57.99

Part revisionist history, part treasure hunt, this is the forgotten story of Ethiopia's 'Elgin Marbles' and a young...  Read More >>

Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience

Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience

Author: Dr. Kathryn Barush (Assistant Professor of Art History and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley and the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765103289
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book Award Winner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize...  Read More >>

Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience

Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience

Author: Dr. Kathryn Barush (Assistant Professor of Art History and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley and the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350253728
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"While place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments,...  Read More >>

The Power of Place: Defining Material Culture in Pre-1900 Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest

The Power of Place: Defining Material Culture in Pre-1900...

Author: Bayou Bend Collection
ISBN: 9780890902035
Format: Paperback
$44.75

At the seventh biennial David B. Warren Symposium, scholars examined cultures in Texas, the Lower South, and the...  Read More >>

Material Game Studies: A Philosophy of Analogue Play

Material Game Studies: A Philosophy of Analogue Play...

Author: Dr Chloe Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Dr Paul Wake (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350202719
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games....  Read More >>

Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture

Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture

Author: Fabian Jonietz ,  Mandy Richter
ISBN: 9789463725835
Format: Hardback
$292.39

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early...  Read More >>

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration

Author: Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK) ,  Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350203105
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Examines how the concepts of 'home', 'migration' and 'belonging' can be used to contextualise contemporary art practices...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge

Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction...

Author: John Nott ,  Anna Harris
ISBN: 9781789385779
Format: Paperback
$90.95

Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education....  Read More >>

Kultur Erben: Objekte - Wege - Akteure

Kultur Erben: Objekte - Wege - Akteure

Author: Ivan Foletti ,  Lina Franken
ISBN: 9783496016304
Format: Paperback
$150.48

English summary: Who inherits cultural heritage in a globalized world? How can shared heritage concepts be integrated...  Read More >>

Doll

Doll

Author: Maria Teresa Hart (Executive Editor, TripAdvisor, Independent Journalist, USA) ,  Christopher Schaberg (Loyola University New Orleans USA)
ISBN: 9781501380860
Format: Paperback
$19.99

"""An examination of dolls and how they model an idealized feminine self, instructing girls what to strive for,...  Read More >>

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