Material culture books

1299 books were found.

A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

Author: Sally Coulthard
ISBN: 9780008559427
Format: Hardback
$50.00

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating...  Read More >>

Los estudios culturales

Los estudios culturales

Author: Fredric Jameson
ISBN: 9788419109149
Format: Paperback
$47.49

""La cultura es el halo que un grupo percibe cuando entra en contacto y observa a otro"". No se puede entender la...  Read More >>

Perspectivism in Archaeology: Insights into Indigenous Theories of Reality

Perspectivism in Archaeology: Insights into Indigenous...

Author: Andrés Laguens (University of Córdoba, Argentina)
ISBN: 9781009393911
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Perspectivism is an archaeological approach that distinguishes recurrent characteristics found in Amerindian mythology....  Read More >>

Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship

Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship...

Author: Gyan Yankovich
ISBN: 9781761152146
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held...  Read More >>

Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age: 1850-1875

Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age: 1850-1875...

Author: E. Royston Pike
ISBN: 9781032615233
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Bicycle

Bicycle

Author: Dr Jonathan Maskit
ISBN: 9781501338090
Format: Paperback
$19.99

"""Shows how understanding the bicycle requires investigating technological history, urban planning, and social...  Read More >>

New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality,...

Author: Professor or Dr. Jesse W. Schwartz (Assistant Professor of English, LaGuardia Community College, USA) ,  Daniel Worden (Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
ISBN: 9781501393020
Format: Paperback
$59.99

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that...  Read More >>

Loot: An epic historical novel of plundered treasure and lasting love

Loot: An epic historical novel of plundered treasure...

Author: Tania James
ISBN: 9781787304161
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make...  Read More >>

Loot: An epic historical novel of plundered treasure and lasting love

Loot: An epic historical novel of plundered treasure...

Author: Tania James
ISBN: 9781787304154
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make...  Read More >>

Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary

Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary...

Author: Robert Willim (Lund University)
ISBN: 9781529221459
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Emerging technologies eventually disappear into the atmosphere of everyday life they become ordinary and enmeshed...  Read More >>

Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary

Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary...

Author: Robert Willim (Lund University)
ISBN: 9781529221442
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Emerging technologies eventually disappear into the atmosphere of everyday life they become ordinary and enmeshed...  Read More >>

The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939

The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and...

Author: Shae Smith Cox ,  T. Michael Parrish
ISBN: 9780807181171
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans...  Read More >>

The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880 1920

The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British...

Author: Una Brogan
ISBN: 9781474488617
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Examines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France....  Read More >>

How Textile Communicates: From Codes to Cosmotechnics

How Textile Communicates: From Codes to Cosmotechnics...

Author: Dr. Ganaele Langlois
ISBN: 9781350384347
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period. Up until the 19th century, civilizations...  Read More >>

Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human

Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human...

Author: Jesse D. Peterson (University College Cork) ,  Natashe Lemos Dekker (Leiden University)
ISBN: 9781529230147
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond traditional perspectives of a nature/culture...  Read More >>

A United Europe of Things: Portable Material Culture across Medieval Europe

A United Europe of Things: Portable Material Culture...

Author: Jakub Sawicki ,  Michael Lewis
ISBN: 9783031483356
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume studies high and late medieval material culture in a Pan-European context. The idea of ‘unity of culture’...  Read More >>

The Icelandic Concrete Saga: Architecture and Construction (1847–1958)

The Icelandic Concrete Saga: Architecture and Construction...

Author: Sofia Nannini
ISBN: 9783986120276
Format: Paperback
$85.00

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Design/Repair: Place, Practice & Community

Design/Repair: Place, Practice & Community

Author: Eleni Kalantidou ,  Guy Keulemans
ISBN: 9783031468612
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse...  Read More >>

Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600

Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since...

Author: Bethan Bide ,  Jade Halbert
ISBN: 9781350232440
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and...  Read More >>

Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity

Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity

Author: Sara Hume (Kent State University Museum, USA)
ISBN: 9781350327733
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices...  Read More >>

Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600

Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since...

Author: Bethan Bide ,  Jade Halbert
ISBN: 9781350232457
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and...  Read More >>

Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period Private Representations

Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period Private...

Author: Aleksandra Hallmann
ISBN: 9789004540262
Format: Book
$1090.32

This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC)...  Read More >>

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