Material Culture

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing become ...

The main purpose of the eleven contributions to this volume is to reconsider and re-assess the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern soci...

This book is a record of the 50 years Widad Kawar spent researching, collecting and preserving part of the heritage of Palestine. This endeavor evo...

This volume, edited by Antonio Aimi and Antonio Guarnotta, offers a new, up-to-date study of the most important cultures of Mesoamerica and of the ...

Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history....

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi...

Sven T Kjellberg, Director of Goteborgs Historiska Museum (now called the Goteborgs Stadsmuseum), and his assistant Olof Hasslof travelled through ...

The book is fundamentally about mulberry trees (both Morus nigra and Morus alba) and all the artefacts created from both the wood and other materia...

This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious vi...

The invention of the aeroplane was the dawn of a new way of travelling. Its potential was quickly realised, and aircraft were developed to carry fi...

Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director...

New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explo...

Sonic branding, guerrilla marketing, celebrity endorsements, customer service excellence and multi-channel advertising are just some of the popular...

A new look at National Museums Scotland collections covering the period 800-1200: the fall of the Pictish kingdoms and rise of the Viking Age; the ...

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from Indias Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth centu...

Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postm...

A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history. - Publishers Weekly A book that sticks with you long after youv...

Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it w...

We often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. A Small Price to Pa...

The articles in this collection analyse methodological aspects of todays hard sciences and humanities and of applied research in the field of high ...

Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small....

What began as an effort to prevent the neglect and potential loss of hundreds of African objects at the University of Texas at Austin has evolved i...

A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material culture This generou...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You cant think about travel without thin...

The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This v...

In this fresh, unfamiliar, and sometimes surprising picture of modern Italy, history is refracted through the prism of the nation's consumer cultur...

Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, ...

he Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and fut...

From items such as Swanndri, the Kiakia Swamp, Depression furniture and kahu kuri to stories about people such as Tau Ihu Kingi, the Highwayman, AW...

We are a product of nature. Every single cell of our body is made of, and depends, on nature. Our inner soul is heavily influenced by nature. We fe...

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the ...

We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suit...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: ...

Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, from the departments of Scottish History a...

It is a very sophisticated and well written manuscript on an important topic within the humanities. · Birgitta Svensson, Stockholm University

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bo...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV...

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as...

This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement.Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping...