Material Culture Books

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   Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility, Materiality and Identity

   Edited by A. Bernard Knapp, Peter van Dommelen

   Material Connections eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against ‘...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58669-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn

   Edited by Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce

   This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organisation of state...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-60314-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony: The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

   By Kaeko Chiba

   This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-55715-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human: Purifying the Social

   By Richie Nimmo

   This book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its role in the constitution of modernity. The book presents a socio-material analysis of the British milk industry in the late nineteenth and early...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-55874-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage

   By Craig Forrest

   The world’s cultural heritage is under threat from war, illicit trafficking, social and economic upheaval, unregulated excavation and neglect. Over a period of almost fifty years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has adopted five international conventions that...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-46781-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations

   Edited by Sandra Dudley

   This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-49218-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Watching TV Is Not Required: Thinking About Media and Thinking About Thinking

   By Bernard McGrane, John Gunderson

   "McGrane and Gunderson have put together an extraordinarily provocative stream of sociologically inspired responses to television. Nothing could be more "relevant" to students, and in the right hands, this is a resource for a learning experience that at once maximizes critical and creative thinking...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-99487-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Museums in Postcolonial Europe

   Edited by Dominic Thomas

   The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures. This book examines the...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-56135-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Making Japanese Heritage

   Edited by Christoph Brumann, Rupert A. Cox

   This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic,...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-41314-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    The Object Reader

    Edited by Fiona Candlin, Raiford Guins

    This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields. The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of their diverse roles, dynamics and...

    February 2009 | 978-0-415-45230-4 | Paperback (Routledge)