Material Culture

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shi...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportat...

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture ...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made object...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods....

First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the book is now...

A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropologys focus on futures and future-making. Examining what desig...

The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain,...

Buying (RED) productsfrom Gap T-shirts to Appleto fight AIDS. Drinking a Caring Cup of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair t...

In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and culture in Poland. How can...

Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics. In 1898, just before she was...

What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and morta...

The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.'It's real gold... its storytelling first class' Sunday TimesWhat if the t...

Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal following aro...

The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sw...

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them a...

Through much of its history, Italy was Europes heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and someti...

From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dyna...

Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented i...

Han Material Culture is an analysis of Han dynasty (206 BCAD 220) Chinese archaeology based on a comparison of the forms of vessels found in positi...

The Black Sea lies at the junction of three major cultural areas: Europe, Central Asia and the Near East. It plays a crucial role in enduring discu...

Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important ...

Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island alte...

Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award. Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ra...

This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional a...

To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other...

Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and ster...

'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epi...

Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China explores the role played by woman, and their visual representations, in introducing modern des...

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctivel...

'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epi...

Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption...

This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. I...

Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to ef...

An interdisciplinary study of British liberalism in the nineteenth centuryVictorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links b...

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today'...

The numerous items of everyday material culture that we employ in housework, cleaning, office work and entertainment are more than mere disposable ...