Material Culture

Craft practice has a rich history and remains vibrant, sustaining communities while negotiating cultures within local or international contexts. Mo...

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

This book explores the history of children’s toys and games bearing racial stereotypes, and the role these objects played in the creation and maint...

What happens when objects behave unexpectedly or fail to do what they ‘should’? Who defines failure? Is failure always bad? Rather than viewing con...

How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture – such as prestige c...

Arab American Aesthetics enlists a wide range of voices to explore, if not tentatively define, what could constitute Arab American aesthetics in li...

First book devoted to Derek Walcott's lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual arts Bringing together local, Atlantic and global dimensions an...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It may be responsible for a greater impr...

Archaeologists are synonymous with artifacts. With artifacts we construct stories concerning past lives and livelihoods, yet we rarely write of dee...

Archaeologists are synonymous with artifacts. With artifacts we construct stories concerning past lives and livelihoods, yet we rarely write of dee...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Harry Brown explores the composition, hi...

From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century woman’s wardrobe. They not ...

'Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, Possessed is one of the few things you really need to own' Daniel GilbertHow ownership came to own us ...