Grasping Things : Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America [1 ed.] 9780813148564, 9780813115726

People and Things : A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture 9780387765273

The core of archaeology is the relationship between people and things. Left without informants and, in many cases, textu

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Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society 1783274891, 9781783274895

Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its hi

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Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life 9781350036048, 9781859733646

Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyd

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The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China 9780231553896

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. S

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Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 9780300271843

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic wo

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Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven 1351027069, 9781351027069

Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (

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Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China 9780824841300

Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of materia

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Material Culture and Kinship in Poland: An Ethnography of Fur and Society 9781501345623, 9781350084926, 9781350084902

In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and

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The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America 9781350048928, 9781847881106

Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or material - culture, b

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Folk Culture of Tibet

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