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Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory: Investigating the Missing Majority

Product Description: Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of thinking about broad themes in the past, this book demonstrates the efficacy of an holistic approach by using examples and cases studies...read more

By Linda M. Hurcombe

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9780415537926 | Routledge, July 14, 2014, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record.

Paperback:

9780415537933 | Routledge, July 14, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record.

Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry

Product Description: During the quarter of a century before the thirteen colonies became a nation, the northwest quadrant of North Carolina had just begun to attract permanent settlers. This seemingly primitive area may not appear to be a likely source for attractive pottery and ornate silverware and furniture, much less for an audience to appreciate these refinements...read more

By Johanna Miller Lewis

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9780813119083 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, March 16, 1995, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: During the quarter of a century before the thirteen colonies became a nation, the northwest quadrant of North Carolina had just begun to attract permanent settlers.

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9780813156095 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 7, 2014), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: During the quarter of a century before the thirteen colonies became a nation, the northwest quadrant of North Carolina had just begun to attract permanent settlers.

Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice

By Sally M. Promey (editor)

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9780300187359 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 24, 2014), cover price $40.00

The First World War in 100 Objects

By Mark Hawkins-Dady (editor) and John Hughes-Wilson

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9781770854130 | Firefly Books Ltd, June 1, 2014, cover price $39.95

Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

By Bjrnar Olsen (editor) and _Â¢ra PâtursdÂ¢ttir (editor)

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9780415523622 | Routledge, May 29, 2014, cover price $240.00

Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe

By Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

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9780262027243 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, September 19, 2014), cover price $34.00

Making and Growing: Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts

Product Description: Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow...read more

By Tim Ingold (editor)

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9781409436423 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 28, 2014, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow.

World Antiquarianism: Comparitive Perspectives

By Tim Murray (contributor)

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9781606061480 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, February 1, 2014, cover price $60.00

Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion in Europe

Product Description: The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are their real selves really reflected in this mirror? This book provides an original and revealing study into engagements with objects that are not what they are claimed and presumed to be and, subsequently, are believed to betray their makers as well as users...read more

By Magdalena Craciun

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9780857854506 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 2, 2014, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects.

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9780857854513 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 2, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects.

The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts: Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies

By Lindsay Weiss (editor)

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9781461401919 | Springer Verlag, September 30, 2011, cover price $229.00

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9781461430049 | Springer Verlag, November 27, 2013, cover price $229.00

Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects

By Neil MacGregor

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9780670026340 | Viking Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $36.00

Tourism Art and Souvenirs: The Material Culture of Tourism

Product Description: This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and cultural anthropology, and demonstrates that tourist art is a unique expression of place and genuine artistic style...read more

By David Hume

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9780415839440 | Routledge, September 4, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and souvenirs.

Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-verbal Communication

Product Description: This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in nonverbal communication, both in non-ritual and in ritual situations...read more

By Pierre Lemonnier

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9781611320565 | Left Coast Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users.

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9781611320572 | Left Coast Pr, August 31, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users.

Archaeology of the Immaterial: The Ascetic Object, Disengaging the Material World

Product Description: An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances...read more

By Victor Buchli

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9780415840491, titled "An Archaeology of the Immaterial: The Ascetic Object, Disengaging the Material World" | Routledge, September 24, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world.

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9780415840507, titled "An Archaeology of the Immaterial: The Ascetic Object, Disengaging the Material World" | Routledge, September 16, 2015, cover price $44.95

Place As Material Culture: Objects, Geographies and the Construction of Time

Product Description: Traditional in archaeological discourse is the need to describe place, albeit in an empiricist and banal way. Discourse is sometimes followed by a more fruitful and interpretive account. However, these accounts tend to ignore human emotion that is bound-up in place, for example the ritualized and symbolic meanings that place holds...read more

By George Nash (editor)

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9781443842617 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, February 1, 2013, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Traditional in archaeological discourse is the need to describe place, albeit in an empiricist and banal way.

Archaeology: The Discipline of Things

Product Description: Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane...read more

By Christopher Witmore

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9780520274167 | Univ of California Pr, November 19, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things.

9780263132717, titled "The Witch's Wedding" | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, April 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | also contains The Witch''s Wedding

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9780520274174 | Univ of California Pr, November 19, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things.

Archaeologies of Internment

Product Description: The internment of civilian and military prisoners became an increasingly common feature of conflicts in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Prison camps, though often hastily constructed and just as quickly destroyed, have left their marks in the archaeological record...read more

By Gabriel Moshenska (editor) and Adrian Myers (editor)

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9781441996657 | Springer Verlag, June 27, 2011, cover price $129.00

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9781461429012 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, August 28, 2012), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: The internment of civilian and military prisoners became an increasingly common feature of conflicts in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Visuality / Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices

Product Description: Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues that these hitherto distinct fields should be understood as in continual dialogue and co-constitution and focuses on reconceptualising the visual as an embodied, material, and often politically-charged realm...read more

By Gillian Rose (editor) and Divya P. Tolia-kelly (editor)

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9781409412229 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 30, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'.

Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World: Art, Craft and Text

Product Description: The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts...read more

By Mariam Rosser-Owen (editor)

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9781780763231 | Tauris Academic Studies, August 15, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques.

Histology of Ancient Human Bone: Methods and Diagnosis: Proceedings of the Palaeohistology Workshop Held from 3 - 5 October 1990 at Gottingen

Product Description: The examination of excavated human bone finds is mainly the domain of anthropologists and forensic pathologists, the former working with ancient and historical specimens, the latter with modern finds. The methodological and diagnostic approaches to these skeletal finds are the same, regardless of the time of burial...read more

By A. Neil Garland (editor) and Gisela Grupe (editor)

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9783642770036 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, December 6, 2011), cover price $129.00 | About this edition: The examination of excavated human bone finds is mainly the domain of anthropologists and forensic pathologists, the former working with ancient and historical specimens, the latter with modern finds.

The Burning House: What Would You Take?

By Foster Huntington (compiler)

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9780062123480 | Harpercollins, July 10, 2012, cover price $16.99

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things

By Ian Hodder

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9780470672112 | Blackwell Pub, May 8, 2012, cover price $102.95

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things

By Ian Hodder

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9780470672129 | Blackwell Pub, May 8, 2012, cover price $41.95

Ownership and Appropriation

Product Description: Through detailed case studies covering a wide range of related issues, Ownership and Appropriation provides a new approach to this key anthropological topic.

By Mark Busse (editor)

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9781847886842 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 15, 2011, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested.

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9781847886859 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 13, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Through detailed case studies covering a wide range of related issues, Ownership and Appropriation provides a new approach to this key anthropological topic.

Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture, Variability, and Transmission

Product Description: Defining "culture" is an important step in undertaking archaeological research.Â Any thorough study of a particular culture first has to determine what that culture contains-- what particular time period, geographic region, and group of people make up that culture...read more

By Mark Vander Linden (editor) and Benjamin W. Roberts (editor)

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9781441969699 | Springer Verlag, June 21, 2011, cover price $229.00 | About this edition: Defining "culture" is an important step in undertaking archaeological research.

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