This book examines Candomblés material culture and its relationship with the evolving cultural politics of Brazil. It employs artefacts as analytical tools to trace the emergence of a diasporic consciousness....Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates everyday objects in Southeast Asia as integral forms of cultural heritage, examining their functions, significance, and the diverse values and emotions they have embodied over time....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the instruments of the Passion, in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised....Lasīt vairāk
This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources....Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architectu...Lasīt vairāk
This book builds on the studies of the Sion Treasure and examined questions regarding silver mining, manufacture, and the economic and cultural role of the silver vessels....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1967 Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age presents a collection of documents, textual and pictorial, and human, illustrating and describing what the author calls, one of the most vigorous, vital, fertile periods in the hist...Lasīt vairāk
The third edition of Crusader Archaeology updates previous editions to include coverage of important recent work in the field. It examines what life was like for European settlers and travellers to the crusader states during the centuries of Latin r...Lasīt vairāk
This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches....Lasīt vairāk
This volume by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a discussion on materialism in its many forms. For postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in religious studies, cultural anthro...Lasīt vairāk
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this 6-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader - anyone keen to learn about Victorian things. This volume, Fashionable Things, will focu...Lasīt vairāk
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. This volume will l...Lasīt vairāk
This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This volume on Victorian Arts will include sources on painting sculpture, book illustration, photography and the much-neglected area of Victorian stained g...Lasīt vairāk
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. This volume, Manuf...Lasīt vairāk
This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This second volume, Science and Medicine, will examine objects (from the most significant to the most obscure) that played a part in nineteenth-century sci...Lasīt vairāk
This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This third volume, Invention and Technology, will look at a variety of Victorian inventions, both foundational and short-lived....Lasīt vairāk
Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability. It examines and challenges assumptions about why we appear to have so wholeheartedly committed to recyc...Lasīt vairāk
This volume is at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of the field . The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses gift giving among consumers attempting to express and construct romantic love. It lies at the intersection of consumption, markets, and culture. In societies shaped by the globalizing neo-liberal economic order, increasing wealth...Lasīt vairāk
Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices,...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing from and building upon Gells work, Carroll comprehensively explores the uses and purposes of material culture in Eastern Orthodox Christian worship. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in a small Antiochian Orthodox Parish in Lo...Lasīt vairāk
This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set of choices and constraints. Rather than divorce aesthetics from politics, the book sutures the two more closely together by challenging t...Lasīt vairāk
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term luxury is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon...Lasīt vairāk
With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material culture that is consciously deployed in order to define and shape the institution both historically and goin...Lasīt vairāk
Media, Materiality and Memory examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record labels. Moving from Edisons phonograph to digital music files, from record collections to online arc...Lasīt vairāk
Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and understand the past and the character of modern technological warfare. At the forefront of these develo...Lasīt vairāk
Both clothing and gifts in the ancient world have been the subject of much scholarly discussion because they were an integral part of Greek and Roman society and identity. This book addresses a gap in scholarship by focusing on gifts of elite male c...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collaps...Lasīt vairāk
This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1979 this title is richly observant, it follows the childs development in play from using the mother or father as the first and best toy, through the exploratory and manipulative sequences, to the use of toys in ritual, symbolic o...Lasīt vairāk
With new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley, this edition examines material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how sources can be used to study the past. A new introduction discusses the iss...Lasīt vairāk
Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology, history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the Great to Putin....Lasīt vairāk
While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other...Lasīt vairāk
A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropologys focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal...Lasīt vairāk
From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes craft in a wide variety of practices from around the world....Lasīt vairāk
