Material culture books

How might happiness research affect government policy in the United States - and beyond? This book examines how...  Read More >>

In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written...  Read More >>

What is the significance of Shylock's ring in The Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude's closet...  Read More >>

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Seven volume set of these classic works of reference, essential for students, scholars, archaeologists, re-enactors...  Read More >>

Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin's concept...  Read More >>

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Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network...  Read More >>

Investigates the ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and...  Read More >>

Drawing from the methodologies of literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, this...  Read More >>

A study of Victorian jewels and their representation that explores the role material objects play in the cultural...  Read More >>

Over the years there have been a surge in publications on Spanish cinema and Spanish cultural studies, but the subject...  Read More >>

Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties-farms,...  Read More >>

From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie...  Read More >>

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* Second edition of a popular and lively introduction to the nature and role of consumption in modern societies....  Read More >>

This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilized by local...  Read More >>

* Second edition of a popular and lively introduction to the nature and role of consumption in modern societies....  Read More >>

A consumer history of Italy from unification in the 19th century to the present day, combining economic and cultural...  Read More >>

Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of...  Read More >>

Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of...  Read More >>

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