Material Culture

Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. This book reveals how shoes played a powerful role in the wider story of shifts in...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the YearSharp, revealing, funny.The GuardianAn original and even occasi...

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of Creolization in terms of duration, temporality, pop...

Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement AwardThe pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heri...

In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...

From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and ...

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honest...

In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The fir...

How do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationsh...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attribu...

Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gells ...

Situated on an intersection between Material Culture Studies, History and Museum and Archival Studies, this book investigates the material world of...

The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roma...

Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection Fly-Catchers, w...

Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edi...

The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain. This book pioneers in reconstructing the global image discourse ...

The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russias first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, So...

Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied. Whether making pottery, food, or textiles, the processes of manual product...