American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture, Paperback

This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. Many of the chapters explicitly l...

Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen? Why do people c...

Gives an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context. Drawing on a range of different cultures, this work covers topic...

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A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wea...

History through material culture is a concise guide for historians focused on how to use material culture as a source. Written in an engaging and c...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth ce...

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice o...

Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

Reducere. Native American Artifacts of Wisconsin is designed to bridge the gap between the professional and amateur archaeologist. In an easy and logical for...

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Publisher: Lehigh University PressAuthor(s): Joan O'MaraNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 179 x 253 x 18Cover type: Paperback /...

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The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twe...

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's selfPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Vivian GornickNumber of ...

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This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - Ioana Baciu

Reducere. This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and ...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

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A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, La...

Reducere. Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - este o carte care se adreseaza unui public divers: studenti ai literaturii americane, profesori, cercet...

DescriptionDesigned to encourage critical thinking, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and a...

Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to th...

Publisher: Lit VerlagNumber of pages: 138Collection: Globalizing Fiction. Transdisciplinary PPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 235 x 11Cover ...

Reducere. It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom "every day is judgment day" (The Nation), could have imagined. The contri...

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Conrad grew up in Washington, D.C., studied engineering and economics at Vanderbilt University, earned a master's degree in Econ...

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Reducere. A true essay is "something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author's personal experience and sub...

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz "The world is abundant even...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Hilton AlsEditor: Robert AtwanThe Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hun...

DescriptionA collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, a...

Reducere. A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of ...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the th...

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