Material Culture Books

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11. An Archaeology of Materials

    Substantial Transformations in Early Prehistoric Europe

    By Chantal Conneller

    Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

    An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller...

    Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
12. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial

    By Paul Pettitt

    Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of...

    Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge
13. History and Material Culture

    A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Edited by Karen Harvey

    Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

    Sources are the raw material of history, but where the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, today historians are increasingly recognizing the value of sources beyond text. In History and Material Culture, Karen Harvey embarks upon a discussion about material culture –...

    Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge
14. Archaeological Artefacts as Material Culture

    By Linda Hurcombe

    This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather than using a purely scientific approach. Drawing on a range of different cultures and extensively illustrated, Archaeological Artefacts and Material Culture covers everything from recovery...

    Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge
15. Cultural Heritage

    Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Edited by Laurajane Smith

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Cultural Heritage is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Edited by Laurajane Smith of the University of York, UK, this four-volume collection brings together the essential Anglophone literature of heritage studies. Encompassing both...

    Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
16. Matters of Conflict

    Material Culture, Memory and the First World War

    By Nicholas J. Saunders

    Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World...

    Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge
17. The Archaeology of Personhood

    An Anthropological Approach

    By Chris Fowler

    Series: Themes in Archaeology Series

    Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past Applying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies...

    Published April 7th 2004 by Routledge
18. 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