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Product Description: Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology. It tackles the most basic problem of historical and archaeological analysis - the relationship between text and artefact – in an analysis of prehistoric art fusing theory and the practice of interpretation to create a fresh framework for understanding the relationship between past and present...read more

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9781138815162 | Routledge, October 27, 2014, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology.
9780415055888 | Routledge, May 1, 1991, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: An exploration and application of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology, tackling a basic problem of historical and archaeological analysis the relationship between text and artifact.

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9781138818095 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 1, 2016), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology.

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By Marilyn M. Cooper (contributor)

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9780817319199 | 3 edition (Univ of Alabama Pr, September 6, 2016), cover price $59.95

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Product Description: ‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’. This open-ended saying has at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another, which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating the passage of time and the materiality of death and decay...read more

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9781472441973 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 30, 2017, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: ‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’.

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By Colin Renfrew (foreword by)

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9780262019194 | Mit Pr, July 12, 2013, cover price $42.00

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9780262528924 | Mit Pr, February 12, 2016, cover price $31.00

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Product Description: The twenty-three distinguished writers included in From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines invite machines into their lives and onto the page. In every room and landscape these writers occupy, gadgets that both stir and stymie may be found: a Singer sewing machine, a stove, a gun, a vibrator, a prosthetic limb, a tractor, a Dodge Dart, a microphone, a smartphone, a stapler, a No...read more

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9781611861907 | Michigan State Univ Pr, February 1, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The twenty-three distinguished writers included in From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines invite machines into their lives and onto the page.

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By S. Brent Plate (editor)

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9781472595461 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 17, 2015, cover price $112.00

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9781472595454 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 17, 2015), cover price $34.95

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Product Description: How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own—outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them...read more
By Mary Jo Arnoldi (editor)

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9781935623168 | Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, January 5, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: How do we come to know the world around us?

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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.Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY enthusiasts, traditional artisans, and technical programmers who consider their labor to be craft, in order to comprehend how they make sense of it. The authors' ethnographic studies focus on the individuals and communities who claim a practice as their own, bypassing the question of craft survival to ask how and why activities termed craft are mobilized and reproduced. Moving beyond regional studies of heritage artisanship, the authors suggest that ideas of craft are by definition part of a larger cosmopolitan dialogue of power and identity. By paying careful attention to these sometimes conflicting voices, this collection shows that there is great flexibility in terms of which activities are labelled 'craft'. In fact, there are many related ideas of craft and these shape distinct engagements with materials, people, and the economy. Case studies from countries including Mexico, Nigeria, India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and France draw together evidence based on linguistics, microsociology, and participant observation to explore the shifting terrain on which those engaged in craft are operating. What emerges is a fascinating picture which shows how claims about craft are an integral part of contemporary global change.

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9781472594860, titled "Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 7, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781472594853, titled "Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 7, 2016, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: It is little wonder that relationships between things and humans are front-and-center in the contemporary social sciences, given the presence of technologies in every conceivable aspect of our lives. From Bruno Latour to Ian Hodder, anthropologists and archaeologists are embracing “thing theory” and the “ontological turn...read more
By Ruth M. Van Dyke (editor)

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9780816531271 | Univ of Arizona Pr, November 12, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: It is little wonder that relationships between things and humans are front-and-center in the contemporary social sciences, given the presence of technologies in every conceivable aspect of our lives.

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9780226076652 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 8, 2016, cover price $40.00

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9780226283029 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 22, 2015, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality...read more
By Christine McLean (editor)

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9780415678803 | Routledge, August 29, 2013, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality.
9780403072552, titled "Amitabha: A Story of Buddhist Theology" | Reprint edition (Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1977), cover price $79.00 | also contains Amitabha: A Story of Buddhist Theology | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

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9781138899414 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 21, 2015), cover price $65.95 | About this edition: There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality.

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Product Description: Mosaics reached their fullest development under the Romans who used them to decorate the floors of their houses and public buildings. This book gives a comprehensive and fully illustrated history of mosaics in the Greek and Roman world, and studies their development over a thousand years throughout the Roman Empire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521461436, titled "Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World" | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $146.99 | also contains Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World | About this edition: Mosaics reached their fullest development under the Romans who used them to decorate the floors of their houses and public buildings.
9780521463027, titled "The Iran-Iraq War" | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $150.00 | also contains The Iran-Iraq War | About this edition: This is the first comprehensive collection of materials, many previously unpublished, on the wider naval aspects of the Iran-Iraq conflict and the despatch of Western fleets to the gulf.

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9780199382279 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 11, 2015, cover price $75.00

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9780199382286 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 11, 2015, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: HEROM is a peer-reviewed online journal presenting innovative contributions to the study of material culture produced, exchanged, and consumed within the spheres of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman world from the late fourth century BC to the seventh century AD...read more
By John Lund (editor)

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9789462700192 | Leuven Univ Pr, January 31, 2015, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: HEROM is a peer-reviewed online journal presenting innovative contributions to the study of material culture produced, exchanged, and consumed within the spheres of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman world from the late fourth century BC to the seventh century AD.
9789058679727 | Leuven Univ Pr, January 7, 2014, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Volume 2HEROM is an annual journal presenting innovative contributions to the study of material culture produced, exchanged, and consumed within the spheres of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman world.
9789058679284 | Leuven Univ Pr, February 21, 2013, cover price $39.00

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9781442242890 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 18, 2014, cover price $85.00

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By Alison Wylie (editor)

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9780415837453 | Routledge, December 19, 2014, cover price $150.00

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9780415837460 | Routledge, January 14, 2015, cover price $49.95

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The verb “declutter” has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it’s only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV programs and commercials, while clutter professionals and specialists referred to as “clutterologists” are just a phone call away. Everywhere the sentiment is the same: clutter is bad. In The Hoarders, Scott Herring provides an in-depth examination of how modern hoarders came into being, from their onset in the late 1930s to the present day. He finds that both the idea of organization and the role of the clutterologist are deeply ingrained in our culture, and that there is a fine line between clutter and deviance in America. Herring introduces us to Jill, whose countertops are piled high with decaying food and whose cabinets are overrun with purchases, while the fly strips hanging from her ceiling are arguably more fly than strip. When Jill spots a decomposing pumpkin about to be jettisoned, she stops, seeing in the rotting, squalid vegetable a special treasure. “I’ve never seen one quite like this before,” she says, and looks to see if any seeds remain. It is from moments like these that Herring builds his questions: What counts as an acceptable material life—and who decides? Is hoarding some sort of inherent deviation of the mind, or a recent historical phenomenon grounded in changing material cultures? Herring opts for the latter, explaining that hoarders attract attention not because they are mentally ill but because they challenge normal modes of material relations. Piled high with detailed and, at times, disturbing descriptions of uncleanliness, The Hoarders delivers a sweeping and fascinating history of hoarding that will cause us all to reconsider how we view these accumulators of clutter.

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9780226171685 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 9, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The verb “declutter” has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it’s only a matter of time.

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9780226171715 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 9, 2014, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: This book is inspired by material culture studies. Essays center on the idea that matter and materiality are integral dimensions of social life. The diversity of their subjects is reflected in the various approaches that bring together archeology, cultural heritage, artifacts, commodities, the human body, and the study of space...read more
By Tryfon Bampilis (editor) and Pieter Ter Keurs (editor)

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9783643902252 | Lit Verlag, September 25, 2014, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This book is inspired by material culture studies.

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Product Description: This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.
By Joanne Zerdy (editor)

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9781137402448 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 5, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.

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By Sorcha O'brien (editor)

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9780857858467 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014, cover price $120.00

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9781472517197 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014, cover price $29.95

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Think of a souvenir from a foreign trip, or an heirloom passed down the generations - distinctive individual artefacts allow us to think and act beyond the proximate, across both space and time. While this makes anecdotal sense, what does scholarship have to say about the role of artefacts in human thought? Surprisingly, material culture research tends also to focus on individual artefacts. But objects rarely stand independently from one another they are interconnected in complex constellations. This innovative volume asserts that it is such 'networks of objects' that instill objects with their power, enabling them to evoke distant times and places for both individuals and communities.Using archaeological case studies from the Bronze Age of Greece throughout, Knappett develops a long-term, archaeological angle on the development of object networks in human societies. He explores the benefits such networks create for human interaction across scales, and the challenges faced by ancient societies in balancing these benefits against their costs. In objectifying and controlling artefacts in networks, human communities can lose track of the recalcitrant pull that artefacts exercise. Materials do not always do as they are asked. We never fully understand all their aspects. This we grasp in our everyday, unconscious working in the phenomenal world, but overlook in our network thinking. And this failure to attend to things and give them their due can lead to societal 'disorientation'.

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9780199215454 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 15, 2011, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Think of a souvenir from a foreign trip, or an heirloom passed down the generations - distinctive individual artefacts allow us to think and act beyond the proximate, across both space and time.

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9780198706939 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 15, 2014), cover price $44.95

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