Second-Hand Cultures

Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• 'Antique', 'vintage', 'previously owned', 'gently used', 'cast-off -- the world of second hand encompasses as many attitudes as there are names for it... Lees meer

At Home with Computers

Elaine Lally

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• New technologies are profoundly reshaping the world around us. Home computers - unheard of two decades ago - now play an intimate role as personal pos... Lees meer

Materializing Thailand

Penny Van Esterik

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent f... Lees meer

Why Women Wear What They Wear

Sophie Woodward

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves through the simple act of getting dressed. Why Women Wear What They Wear presents an ... Lees meer

Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt

Lynn Meskell

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture | nr. 6
• Egypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique... Lees meer

The Social Life of Trees

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment... Lees meer

Raw Histories

Elizabeth Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how appro... Lees meer

Luxury Indian Fashion

Tereza Kuldova

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking lu... Lees meer

Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum

Sharon MacDonald

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• What goes on behind closed doors at museums? How are decisions about exhibitions made and who, or what, really makes them? Why are certain objects and... Lees meer

An Archaeology of Socialism

Victor Buchli

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period a... Lees meer

The Social Life of Trees

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment... Lees meer

The Acropolis

Eleana Yalouri

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• The Acropolis in Athens has captured the imaginations of readers, writers and travellers for centuries and every year draws crowds from all over the w... Lees meer

Remembrance of Repasts

David E Sutton

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Proust's famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing commo... Lees meer

Material Memories

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture | nr. 5
• This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particular d... Lees meer

Urban Ghana and Privacy in the Digital Age

Elad Ben Elul

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, material... Lees meer

The Acropolis

Eleana Yalouri

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• The Acropolis in Athens has captured the imaginations of readers, writers and travellers for centuries and every year draws crowds from all over the w... Lees meer

Anthropology and the Individual

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original ... Lees meer

Food and the Self

Isabelle De Solier

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' m... Lees meer

Remembrance of Repasts

David E Sutton

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Prousts famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing commod... Lees meer

Hollywood Beyond the Screen

Anne Massey

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Hollywood has exerted a profound influence on British style and design. From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles, ... Lees meer

Urban Ghana and Privacy in the Digital Age

Elad Ben Elul

• Hardcover | Engels | Materializing Culture
• This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, material... Lees meer

The Orient Strikes Back

Joy Hendry

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese 'villages' and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds' ... Lees meer

Food and the Self

Isabelle De Solier

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' m... Lees meer

Malanggan

Susanne Küchler

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confou... Lees meer