Material Culture

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 ...