Material culture books

1295 books were found.

Making and Growing: Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts

Making and Growing: Anthropological Studies of Organisms...

Author: Elizabeth Hallam ,  Tim Ingold
ISBN: 9781409436423
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to...  Read More >>

Consumption Norms and Everyday Ethics

Consumption Norms and Everyday Ethics

Author: L. Pellandini-Simánya ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781137022493
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum

Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum

Author: Maia Wellington Gahtan
ISBN: 9781409456841
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation

Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation...

Author: Paul Smeyers ,  Marc Depaepe
ISBN: 9783319030821
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and...  Read More >>

Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean

Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean...

Author: Dr Stephanie L. Hathaway ,  Dr David W. Kim
ISBN: 9781472524591
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The cross-fertilisation in written and material culture across borders in the medieval world.  Read More >>

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator

Author: Andreas Bernard
ISBN: 9780814787168
Format: Hardback
$75.99

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The Severed Head: Capital Visions

The Severed Head: Capital Visions

Author: Julia Kristeva ,  Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9780231157216
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations...  Read More >>

Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America

Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances,...

Author: Jonathan Rees (Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo)
ISBN: 9781421411064
Format: Hardback
$109.00

Rees shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural...  Read More >>

The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture: With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material...

Author: Lisa H. Cooper ,  Andrea Denny-Brown
ISBN: 9781409456766
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the arma Christi, the ""instruments of the Passion,""...  Read More >>

Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California: Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority

Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California:...

Author: John Ott ,  Assoc. Prof. Michael E. Yonan
ISBN: 9781409463344
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Through the example of Central Pacific Railroad executives, Manufacturing the Modern Patron redirects attention...  Read More >>

The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

Author: Marcos Cruz ,  Professor Teddy Cruz
ISBN: 9781409469346
Format: Paperback
$131.00

Today's architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness....  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture

Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context:...

Author: Ileana Baird ,  Christina Ionescu
ISBN: 9781472413291
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically...  Read More >>

Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation

Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation...

Author: Paul Cornish ,  Nicholas J Saunders
ISBN: 9780415834223
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in...  Read More >>

Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture

Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity...

Author: R. Scapp ,  B. Seitz
ISBN: 9781137326812
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture

Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity...

Author: R. Scapp ,  B. Seitz
ISBN: 9781137326782
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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The Material Culture of the Jacobites

The Material Culture of the Jacobites

Author: Neil Guthrie
ISBN: 9781107041332
Format: Hardback
$243.23

An original and thought-provoking study of the material objects produced, acquired and treasured by those who worked...  Read More >>

Condensed Reality: A Study of Material Culture - Case Studies from Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and Enggano (Indonesia)

Condensed Reality: A Study of Material Culture - Case...

Author: P.J.ter Keurs
ISBN: 9789057891120
Format: Paperback
$102.21

End of Year Sales 50% discount (till 08/02/2011), current prices are after discount  Read More >>

Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance after Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance...

Author: J. Adams
ISBN: 9781137275585
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Women and the Material Culture of Death

Women and the Material Culture of Death

Author: Maureen Daly Goggin ,  Beth Fowkes Tobin
ISBN: 9781409444169
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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