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1. Gifts and Commodities

   Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700

   By James G. Carrier

   Series: Material Cultures

   Three hundred years ago people made most of what they used, or got it in trade from their neighbours. Now, no one seems to make anything, and we buy what we need from shops. Gifts and Commodities describes the cultural and historical process of these changes and looks at the rise of consumer...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Experiencing the Past

   On the Character of Archaeology

   By Michael Shanks

   Series: Material Cultures

   In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches....

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
3. Technological Choices

   Transformations in Material Cultures since the Neolithic

   Edited by Pierre Lemonnier

   Series: Material Cultures

   Technological Choices deals with the adoption or rejection by a society of certain technological innovations. It demonstrates that in any society, such choices result from cultural values and social relations, rather than inherent benefits in the technology itself and highlights revolutionary...

   Published September 25th 2002 by Routledge
4. Mind, Materiality and History

   Explorations in Fijian Ethnography

   By Christina Toren

   Series: Material Cultures

   How do we become who we are? How is it that people are so similar in the ways they differ from one another, and so different in the ways they are the same?Christina Toren's theory of mind as not only a physical phenomenon, but an historical one, sets out to answer these questions by examining how...

   Published July 28th 1999 by Routledge
5. Time, Culture and Identity

   An Interpretative Archaeology

   By Julian Thomas

   Series: Material Cultures

   Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the...

   Published October 28th 1998 by Routledge
6. Social Transformations in Archaeology

   Global and Local Perspectives

   By Kristian Kristiansen, Michael Rowlands

   Series: Material Cultures

   Social Transformations in Archaeology explores the relevance of archaeology to the study of long-term change and to the understanding of our contemporary world. The articles are divided into: * broader theoretical issues * post-colonial issues in a wide range of contexts * archaeological...

   Published September 23rd 1998 by Routledge
7. Architecture and Order

   Approaches to Social Space

   Edited by Michael Parker Pearson, Colin Richards

   Series: Material Cultures

   Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world, and understanding the use of space is fundamental to archaeological inquiry. Architecture and Order draws on the work of archaeologists, social theorists and architects to explore the way in which people relate...

   Published April 16th 1997 by Routledge
8. Acknowledging Consumption

   Edited by Daniel Miller (Series Editor), Daniel Miller

   Series: Material Cultures

   A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas....

   Published June 21st 1995 by Routledge
9. Theory and Practice in Archaeology

   By Ian Hodder

   Series: Material Cultures

   In this latest collection of his articles, of which seven are written especially for this volume, Ian Hodder captures and continues the lively controversy of the 1980s over symbolic and structural approaches to archaeology. The book acts as an overview of the developments in the discipline over the...

   Published May 31st 1995 by Routledge
10. The Swastika

    Constructing the Symbol

    By Malcolm Quinn

    Series: Material Cultures

    Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in...

    Published November 2nd 1994 by Routledge