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What Is Conservation? by Peter N Miller 9781941792377
Booksplease Price: £21.05Thought-provoking discussions on conservation from various points of view.What is Conservation? is an unconventional introduction to the topic of conservation in all its forms, facilitated through... -
Cultural Histories of the Material World Peter N. Miller 9781941792186
Booksplease Price: £20.12Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, Cultural Histories of the Material World provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality... -
Frontier Shores - Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania by Shawn Rowlands
Booksplease Price: £20.12In the late nineteenth century, the growing discipline of anthropology was both a powerful tool of colonial control and an ideological justification for it. As European empires and their commercial... -
Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles by Urmila Mohan
Booksplease Price: £24.15Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in using visual anthropological techniques to study the aesthetics of bodily motion in Bali. What is less well known is that they also... -
The Anthropology of Expeditions - Travel, Visualities, Afterlives by Erin L. Hasinoff
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £42.12In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of... -
André Leroi–Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, an – A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to the 1970s by André Leroi–gourhan 9781941792148
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.99A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts-many translated into English for the first time. Andre Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century... -
The Interface Experience - A User's Guide by Kimon Keramidas
Booksplease Price: £20.12The past forty years have seen the rise of the personal computer, a device that has enabled ordinary individuals to access a tool that had been exclusive to laboratories and corporate technology... -
Design by the Book - Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu by Francois Louis
Booksplease Price: £31.46Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts... -
Ritual and Capital by Center Bard Graduate 9781941792193
Booksplease Price: £21.35Ritual and Capital is an expansive volume that collects an interdisciplinary range of voices and genres that reflect on ritual as a form of resistance against capitalism. The poems, essays, and... -
Ex Voto - Votive Giving Across Cultures by Ittai Weinryb 9781941792056
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £42.42Derived from Latin ex voto suscepto "in pursuance of a vow," an ex voto embodies the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the person who deposits it. Almost anything, regardless of size, weight, form, or... -
Conserving Active Matter by Peter N. Miller
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.85Considers the future of conservation and its connection to the human sciences. This volume brings together the findings from a five-year research project that seeks to reimagine the relationship... -
Revisions - Zen for Film Hanna B. Hoelling 9781941792049
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £16.60How do works of art endure over time in the face of aging materials and changing interpretations of their meaning? How do decay, technological obsolescence, and the blending of old and new media... -
The Art of the Jewish Family - A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects by Laura Arnold Leibman
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.93In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from... -
Staging the Table in Europe – 1500–1800 by Deborah L. Krohn
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.40A first of its kind exploration of early modern European culinary history.Staging the Table in Europe represents the first book-length study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century illustrated... -
In Space We Read Time - On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics Karl Schloegel 9781941792087
Booksplease Price: £42.29History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl SchlOgel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just... -
SIGHTLINES: On Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa Drew Thompson 9781941792421
Booksplease Price: £24.80New modes of displaying and viewing African art and material culture. At the heart of SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa is a design-focused question of how to present... -
The Museum in the Cultural Sciences: Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century by Peter N Miller 9781941792162
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £51.35In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode's sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two particularly...