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Material Culture Books
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.02 — 626 ratings — published 2001
Stuff (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.78 — 290 ratings — published 2009
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 358 ratings — published 1986
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.95 — 243 ratings — published 1992
Culture and Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle Class Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.79 — 29 ratings — published 1997
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,066 ratings — published 1977
A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (Early American Studies)
by (shelved 8 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.28 — 25 ratings — published 2010
What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.45 — 58 ratings — published 2009
Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.66 — 61 ratings — published 2001
Material Culture and Mass Consumerism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.90 — 52 ratings — published 1987
Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture (American Civilization)
by (shelved 7 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.93 — 101 ratings — published 1992
Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.09 — 23 ratings — published 1997
Handbook of Material Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 2006
Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture)
by (shelved 6 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.65 — 57 ratings — published 2005
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.96 — 63,367 ratings — published 2010
Material Culture : (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.06 — 34 ratings — published 1999
History From Things: Essays on Material Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.43 — 28 ratings — published 1995
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,547 ratings — published 2019
Material Culture Studies in America: An Anthology (American Association for State and Local History Books)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.53 — 15 ratings — published 1982
The Material Culture Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 2002
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,350 ratings — published 2010
Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.39 — 51 ratings — published 1991
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700 - 1830 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 2007
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.78 — 369 ratings — published 2007
The System of Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,902 ratings — published 1968
The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.67 — 131 ratings — published 1981
American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.56 — 54 ratings — published 2000
Nina Simone's Gum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,897 ratings — published 2021
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,328 ratings — published 2021
Clothing as Material Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published 2005
The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 127 ratings — published 1998
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,458 ratings — published 2010
The Comfort of Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.88 — 358 ratings — published 2008
The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.53 — 17 ratings — published 2015
The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.85 — 131 ratings — published 2013
A Theory of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.53 — 90 ratings — published 1998
Victorian Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.66 — 35 ratings — published 1988
Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.85 — 86 ratings — published 1997
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.92 — 839 ratings — published 2009
Understanding Material Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.50 — 48 ratings — published 2007
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 2013
Findings: The Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2007
Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2007
Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 51 ratings — published 2008
Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (Early American Studies)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.48 — 23 ratings — published 2005
Material Culture: A Research Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published 1985
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 544 ratings — published 2004
Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture)
by (shelved 4 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.43 — 21 ratings — published 2000
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,832 ratings — published 1923
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (Folklore and Folklife)
by (shelved 3 times as material-culture)
avg rating 3.65 — 48 ratings — published 1969
“The dining-room was in the good taste of the period. It was very severe. There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straight lines, and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale rabbits frolicked among leafy trees, suggested the influence of William Morris. There was blue delft on the chimneypiece. At that time there must have been five hundred dining-rooms in London decorated in exactly the same manner. It was chaste, artistic, and dull.”
― The Moon and Sixpence
― The Moon and Sixpence
“Where there is divergence, the distinctive cultural perspective of our society can illuminate unseen and even unconscious aspects of the other culture. There was gravity before Newton; there was economic determinism before Marx; there was sex before Freud.”
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