Material culture books

This report from the Omrit temple excavations presents artifacts (e.g., ceramics, frescoes, coins, etc.) recovered...  Read More >>

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Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing...  Read More >>

The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum  Read More >>

How the interactions of nonelites influenced Athenian material culture and society The seventh century BC in ancient...  Read More >>

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing...  Read More >>

Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits,...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2022 Nib Literary Awards. Chosen as a 2021 'Book of the Year' in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1990, this collection of essays by eminent anthropologists explores the question of culture...  Read More >>

For Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Brooks, things mobilise creativity, traverse domestic, public...  Read More >>

In Histoire des Textiles en Babylonie, 626-484 av. J.-C., Louise Quillien offers an analysis of textile manufacturing,...  Read More >>

The Iron Age settlement at Culduthel is one of the most significant later prehistoric sites in mainland Scotland....  Read More >>

What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments?...  Read More >>

Aussere Rekorde, Erstersteigungen und menschliche Hochstleistungen - sie standen haufig im Mittelpunkt, wenn es...  Read More >>

Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress...  Read More >>

Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional...  Read More >>

"Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book Award Winner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize...  Read More >>

Razzall offers close readings of literary texts alongside artefacts from chests to book-bindings and reliquaries,...  Read More >>

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Why do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years.  Read More >>

Discusses meanings of shininess in art and in culture generally. Shininess is physically and metaphorically present...  Read More >>

This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on...  Read More >>

Precolonial African Material Culture presents a comprehensive challenge to the long-held myth of the inherent backwardness...  Read More >>

Fifty stories showcasing the impact made by inspiring individuals and inventions on the development of the sailing...  Read More >>

Die Prasentation offentlicher und universitarer Sammlungen wird aktuell oft von Veranderungen in den Institutionen...  Read More >>