Material Culture

This book is a fan tribute to the original adidas models, the so-called OG''s - it includes original adidas basketball, tennis, and running shoes...

Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages w...

Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste Magazine Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully design...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of femin...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Mat thew Newtons childhoo...

In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about wastein terms of time, stuff, money, po...

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world. The book brings together leading scholars in the social...

Focusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and functi...

History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Respond...

Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world ...

The Early Formative Olmec are central in a wide variety of debates regarding the development of Mesoamerican societies. A fundamental issue in Olme...

* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literall...

Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from th...

Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, and detritus - in this enjoyably radical exploration of 'Junk', Gillian Whiteley rethinks art's historical and pres...

Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art explores the powerful relationship between artistic production and cultures of conflict in the Unit...

The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and thingnes...