Material culture books

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Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America

Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America

Author: Wendy A Woloson
ISBN: 9780226664354
Format: Hardback
$49.95

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Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of...

Author: Aaron Parkhurst ,  Timothy Carroll
ISBN: 9780367662882
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material...  Read More >>

Space, Place and Religious Landscapes: Living Mountains

Space, Place and Religious Landscapes: Living Mountains...

Author: Darrelyn Gunzburg ,  Bernadette Brady
ISBN: 9781350079885
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic...  Read More >>

Material: Making and the Art of Transformation

Material: Making and the Art of Transformation

Author: Nick Kary
ISBN: 9781603589321
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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Konstanz Obere Augustinergasse: Ein Hinterhofquartier Und Sein Historisch-Bauhistorisches Umfeld

Konstanz Obere Augustinergasse: Ein Hinterhofquartier...

Author: Ralf Rober
ISBN: 9783954904792
Format: Hardback
$298.32

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Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Author: Judy Attfield ,  Daniel Miller
ISBN: 9781350070714
Format: Paperback
$49.99

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the...  Read More >>

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Author: Judy Attfield ,  Daniel Miller
ISBN: 9781350072299
Format: Hardback
$160.00

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the...  Read More >>

Beauty & Art - A Collection of Essays

Beauty & Art - A Collection of Essays

Author: Vernon Lee
ISBN: 9781528718202
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony, this volume contains a fantastic collection of...  Read More >>

A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing - Essays and Excerpts on The Arts

A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing - Essays and...

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781528718141
Format: Paperback
$31.02

A brand new collection of essays and excerpts on the subject the arts written by Oscar Wilde. A fantastic collection...  Read More >>

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia

Author: Haari Luukkanen (Haari Luukkanen) ,  William W. Fitzhugh (William W. Fitzhugh)
ISBN: 9781588344755
Format: Hardback
$100.00

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia is a history and description of bark and skin boat traditions...  Read More >>

Seasonal Sociology

Seasonal Sociology

Author: Tonya Davidson ,  Ondine Park
ISBN: 9781487594084
Format: Paperback
$99.99

Seasonal Sociology offers an engrossing and lively introduction to sociology through the seasons, examining the...  Read More >>

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period

Author: Nicholas L. Kraus
ISBN: 9789004443228
Format: Hardback
$733.92

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period presents an in-depth analysis of scribal education during the period of...  Read More >>

Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History

Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History...

Author: Alexander Adams ,  Frank Furedi
ISBN: 9781788360425
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This book surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public culture. It is one...  Read More >>

Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need

Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need

Author: Bruce Hood
ISBN: 9780141991290
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688–1832

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British...

Author: Louisiane Ferlier ,  Benedicte Miyamoto
ISBN: 9789004433663
Format: Hardback
$448.80

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the authority of print in all its shapes in the British...  Read More >>

Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking

Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics...

Author: Dr. Morna Laing ,  Jacki Willson
ISBN: 9781350154216
Format: Hardback
$200.00

In 1975 Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay on the male gaze, ushering in a new era in understanding the politics...  Read More >>

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence...

Author: Dan Hicks
ISBN: 9780745341767
Format: Hardback
$64.69

A call for western museums to wash their hands of colonial blood  Read More >>

Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre

Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture,...

Author: Therí Pickens
ISBN: 9780367593179
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set...  Read More >>

Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven

Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things...

Author: Timothy Carroll
ISBN: 9780367590550
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing from and building upon Gell’s work, Carroll comprehensively explores the uses and purposes of material culture...  Read More >>

The Brightness of Things: An Adventure in Light and Time

The Brightness of Things: An Adventure in Light and...

Author: Kate Devlin
ISBN: 9781472912770
Format: Hardback
$71.28

We are surrounded by the material culture of the people who lived before us: architecture, artworks and artefacts....  Read More >>

Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects

Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural...

Author: Edward Posnett
ISBN: 9781784703028
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In this beguiling work Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring seven wonders...  Read More >>

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