Material Culture

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...

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

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...

In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few...

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...

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

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

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change  One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a bett...

The book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals w...

A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConc...